Category: 5x5x25
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The Post-Assessment Reflection (PAR)
by Jessie Key, Teaching Faculty Member, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU As an instructor, it is really frustrating and disappointing when students receive back a marked assessment (Quiz, Test, Report etc.), look at the grade and then shove it directly into the back of their backpack; never to see the light…
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Writing Examinations
by Jessie Key, Teaching Faculty Member, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU As a newer teaching faculty member, I find one of the most difficult and time consuming parts of my job is writing and marking exams. By comparison, preparing lecture material seems much easier to me. As a subject matter expert,…
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Think Outside the Dodecahedron Part 2
by Anna Atkinson, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Vancouver Island University If you promise not to tell anyone, I’ll let you in on a secret: I don’t find business writing all that interesting. But I teach it, all the time . . . it’s one of the courses that our faculty offers…
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Calibrated Peer Review Part V
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Calibrated Peer Review Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV I would like to end my series on the CPR process with my particular learning from this process…
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Simulation Snippets Part V
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Simulation Snippets Part 1; Part II, Part III and Part IV This has been another red letter couple of weeks for the healthcare simulation suites in building 180. Last week marked my…
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Simulation Snippets Part IV
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Simulation Snippets Part 1; Part II, Part III and Part V For this posting I would like to talk about some of the pedagogy around simulation. The vision for our simulation…
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Calibrated Peer Review Part IV
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Calibrated Peer Review Part I, Part II, Part III and Part V For this posting, I would like to offer some of the student responses to the CPR process…
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Calibrated Peer Review Part III
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Calibrated Peer Review Part I, Part II, Part IV and Part V I thought I would start this posting by describing the Calibrated Peer Review (CPR)…
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Teaching and Learning at VIU
by Darlene Goodrick, Supervisor – Printing & Duplicating, Vancouver Island University Recently I was fortunate enough to take part in the “FISH” customer service training. What is “FISH” you ask? Really? You don’t know what a fish is? OK I am kidding, that isn’t what this is about. Well sort of but not really. It…
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Shanghai Immersion
by Bryan Webber, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Management, VIU I like to think that I’ve been reasonably engaged with the international presence here at VIU. I regularly teach classes with a significant international composition (for example, one of my classes this semester has approximately 33% international students –and that’s relatively low for our courses…
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Titles: Impossible and Important
By Carrie Johns, Secretary Registrar and Convocation, Registration Centre, VIU VIU’s Registration Centre produces a brochure every semester that outlines various deadlines and guidelines pertinent to students attending classes. This brochure goes through several drafts and revisions by members of the Registration Centre before it is sent to Marketing, Advertising and Design to be produced…
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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 big dreams and high hopes. They have spent time exploring their options, thinking and preparing, applying, getting transcripts in or assessments complete and once admitted…