Month: March 2014

  • Facilitating Inquiry-based Learning: Reflections of a Rookie

    by Sandra Johnstone, Teaching Faculty, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU My inspiration This semester is the first time that I have designed and facilitated a course that centres on […]

  • Learning and Nanaimo Bars

    Learning and Nanaimo Bars

    by Greg Klimes, Teaching Faculty, RMOT, Faculty of Science and Technology, Vancouver Island University In my program I delve into the basic principles of law enforcement, as it relates to […]

  • VIU looked at with Dutch glasses

    VIU looked at with Dutch glasses

    by Olaf Ernst, Visiting Scholar,  NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences (Visiting Department of Recreation and Tourism Management, VIU) As you probably remember I am not a regular VIU faculty […]

  • What Successful Teachers Do

    What Successful Teachers Do

    by Doris Carey, Faculty Member, Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation, VIU I recently read an article with an intriguing title: The Differences Between Successful And Unsuccessful People (Jacqueline Smith, […]

  • W is for Wrinkly Brain

    By Carrie Johns, Secretary Registrar and Convocation, Registration Centre, VIU My son is two years old, four months, and 26 days old, and he is a genius. No, really.  He […]

  • I am a bad teacher . . . (?)

    by Anna Atkinson, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Vancouver Island University At this time of year—actually, at this time of term, no matter which term it is—the […]

  • WHAT?? Four Crazy Student Incidents From My Teaching Days —

    WHAT?? Four Crazy Student Incidents From My Teaching Days —

    by Melissa Robertson, Learning Technologies Support Specialist, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning, VIU I was taking a walk down memory, thinking about my teaching days, when I realized […]

  • Chilly Learning: The Sequel

    Chilly Learning: The Sequel

    by Greg Klimes, Teaching Faculty, RMOT, Faculty of Science and Technology, Vancouver Island University A couple of blogs ago I wrote about our upcoming overnight field camp in the forests […]

  • I have to get an A on this!

    I have to get an A on this!

    by Rob Ferguson, Teaching Faculty Member and Co-Chair, Department of Recreation and Tourism Management, Faculty of Management, VIU Our current higher education system has created a culture where the almighty […]

  • Typing with Two

    Typing with Two

    By Wendy Simms, Biology Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, Vancouver Island University I have a confession to make. I STILL, to this day, do not know how to type properly.  […]

  • The student 3.0 in our classrooms: fiction or reality?

    The student 3.0 in our classrooms: fiction or reality?

    by Olaf Ernst, Visiting Scholar,  NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences (Visiting Department of Recreation and Tourism Management, VIU) Like with new technical products, which new versions replace the old […]

  • A light-bulb moment 30 years in the making

    A light-bulb moment 30 years in the making

    by Sandra Johnstone, Teaching Faculty, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU Illumination A few weeks ago I had a busy day. I attended a morning meeting to discuss learning outcomes […]