The Centre for Innovation in Excellence in Learning (CIEL) 2025 Teaching and Learning Conference: Showcase Series, featured four roundtable discussions. At each session, faculty members from different disciplines shared their work, followed by a discussion on its impact on teaching and learning. Digital Literacy was the theme on May 13. The roundtable featured three panelists who integrate digital literacy in their work and teaching.

• Jaimie Braybrook, Professor, Dental Hygiene, shared how she used VIULearn to digitalize clinical assessment and charting practices as a means to save time, streamline processes and more accurately represent workplace practices.

• Robin Davies, Professor, Media Studies/Digital Media Technology, wove his presentation around the question “to what degree does digital literacy rely on un-sustainable technology?”

• Caroline Korbel, Librarian, Copyright and Open Licensing Coordinator, rounded out the conversation by talking about the new digital normal and the tools available to help students and faculty navigate this space.

Below is a recording of the roundtable presentations.

Interested in what you heard?

Would you like to integrate Digital Literacy into your practice? We invite you to connect with the CIEL at learnsupport@viu.ca and you can learn more by exploring our Digital Literacy Toolkit.

Also, we invite you to listen to the other Showcase Series recordings to explore innovative teaching and learning practices across disciplines, including our GenAI@VIU: In Conversation podcast.

Digital Literacy is defined as “a person’s knowledge, skills, and abilities for using digital tools ethically, effectively, and within a variety of contexts in order to access, interpret, and evaluate information, as well as to create, construct new knowledge, and communicate with others.” (Cited in ).