Month: February 2014
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Goal Setting and Planning (Part 1): Overcoming Obstacles
By Sharon Kelly, Teaching Faculty Member and Degree Advisor, Faculty of Management/Educational Counsellor, Student Affairs, VIU VIU is an open access institution. And each year, new students join programs with […]
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Shut in, shut out and shut up: Maternal Caregivers of Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors
By Susan Lymbery, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation and Faculty of Arts and Humanities, VIU Imagine your gifted six-year-old has just been diagnosed with an inoperable, […]
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The Power of the Negative Example
by Doris Carey, Faculty Member, Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation, VIU When introducing a new concept, instructors tend to provide a concise definition of the term and follow up […]
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Group Exams – A Testimonial
by Sandra Johnstone, Teaching Faculty, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU Finally jumping on the bandwagon I’ve been intrigued by the idea of group exams for a while, but hadn’t […]
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Educational Developers: Change Agent, Maven or Broker?
by Liesel Knaack, Director, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning, VIU Many times people ask me, “What do you do”? I often say, “I help faculty be successful in […]
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Are Teachers Simply Muddling Along?
by Andrea Noble, Online Course Support Assistant, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) “…teaching is frequently a gloriously messy pursuit in which shock, contradiction and risk are endemic.” […]
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Creating a Good How-To Video
by Melissa Robertson, Learning Technologies Support Specialist, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning, VIU The past few weeks at work I have been working on making videos and it […]
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Redefining your Program: Keeping up with the ‘real world’ from a National Perspective?
by Olaf Ernst, Visiting Scholar, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences (Visiting Department of Recreation and Tourism Management, VIU) Often our students in class and individual meetings refer to university […]
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Teachable Moments
By Wendy Simms, Biology Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, Vancouver Island University I have a four year old son enrolled at a daycare that has a “Kinderprep” program 4 […]
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Think Outside the Dodecahedron Part 1
by Anna Atkinson, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Vancouver Island University I love the word dodecahedron, and boxes are a bit boring even when you’re thinking outside […]
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Teaching Circles: Using Skilled and Experienced Alumni
by Greg Klimes, Teaching Faculty, RMOT, Faculty of Science and Technology, Vancouver Island University One of the nicest rewards I’ve experienced here at VIU occurs each year when I invite […]
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My Life as a Rebel
By Deirdre Godwin, Program Assistant, Professional Development and Training, Faculties of Health and Human Services & Trades and Applied Technology, VIU In an earlier incarnation, or so it now seems, […]