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Enhancements to VIULearn: My Home, Course Home and Nav Bar (April 30)

On April 30, VIULearn will undergo a change in terms of look and feel as we upgrade to a new version called Daylight. We are also going to slide in a few enhancements to the My Home, Course Home and the… Read more ›

Apr 19, 2017 1 Comment

Liesel Knaack

Blended Learning, D2L Tips & Tricks, Emerging technologies, General, Learning management systems, Online learning, Teaching & Learning

VIUTube moves to a New Location at UBC

VIUTube, VIU’s streaming video platform for uploading and watching videos in a secure and private location is being upgraded (and moved to a new location). VIU is now part of a centralized shared service for post-secondary institutions in BC for… Read more ›

Apr 02, 2017

Liesel Knaack

Emerging technologies, General, Teaching & Learning, Technology

Engaging students with Open Education at VIULearns 2016

Last week during the VIULearns event on the Nanaimo campus I had a chance to engage students directly with the idea of open education. I positioned our booth to draw students in around all aspects of open education; including open… Read more ›

Oct 05, 2016

Michael Paskevicius

Creative Commons, Emerging technologies, Learning Design, Open educational resources, Student Learning

Best Practices for Facilitating Online Learning: VIU Community of Practice Recap

We hosted our first fully online VIU community of practice discussing best practices for facilitating online learning last Friday over lunch. While the initial group was small the session went very well. We had established some structure to and prompts… Read more ›

Sep 26, 2016

Michael Paskevicius

Blended Learning, Emerging technologies, Online learning, Professional Learning Networks, Teaching & Learning, Technology

What’s New in VIULearn? (Summer 2016)

This summer, there have been changes to the names of some of the tools you use in VIULearn. For instance, “Dropbox” for submitting assignments has been creating some confusion with the internet storage service “Dropbox”. Additionally, there have been a… Read more ›

May 25, 2016 1 Comment

Stephanie Boychuk

D2L Tips & Tricks, Emerging technologies, General, Learning management systems, Online learning, Technology

10.6.1, brightspace, Change, Content, D2L, Language, Navigation, Terms, viu, VIULearn

Blackboard Collaborate Modernization: The Ultra Experience

I am quite excited about the upcoming release of Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. Blackboard Collaborate is a synchronous communication tool that has been available at VIU for some time now. It is most similar to familiar programs such as Skype, which… Read more ›

Jun 25, 2015

Michael Paskevicius

Blended Learning, Emerging technologies, Software, Technology, Video in education

Blackboard Collaborate, online learning, synchronous communication, Tool

Teaching Excellence Video Series: Gail Krivel-Zacks on concept mapping and designing meaningful case studies

Gail Krivel-Zacks from Education talks about using concept mapping to help students organize information with complex relationships and to help students demonstrate learning over time. Gail discusses a process by which she had students create relevant case studies for other… Read more ›

Mar 10, 2015

Michael Paskevicius

Curriculum design, Emerging technologies, Learning Design, Teaching Excellence Project

Teaching Excellence Video Series: Jessie Key on creating video lab tutorials

Jessie Key from Chemistry discusses his use of video tutorials for lectures and labs.

Mar 05, 2015

Michael Paskevicius

Blended Learning, Emerging technologies, Teaching Excellence Project, Video in education

BCcampus Open Textbook Project Presentation at VIU

On January 15th Clint Lalonde from BC Campus visited VIU to talk about the BCcampus Open Textbook Project. Clint Lalonde manages the Open Education department at BCcampus and is an extremely experienced educational technologist in all aspects of teaching and learning.… Read more ›

Jan 20, 2015

Michael Paskevicius

Emerging technologies, Open educational resources, Student Learning, Technology

OER, open educational resources, open textbook project, opened

The growth of WordPress at VIU

We launched WordPress.viu.ca as a blogging/website service for faculty at Vancouver Island University in early 2012. The site is set up as a WordPress multisite network, so we maintain one version of the software/code and faculty can login and create… Read more ›

Sep 12, 2014

Michael Paskevicius

Emerging technologies

wordpress

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Enhancements to VIULearn: My Home, Course Home and Nav Bar (April 30)

VIUTube moves to a New Location at UBC

Engaging students with Open Education at VIULearns 2016

Best Practices for Facilitating Online Learning: VIU Community of Practice Recap

What’s New in VIULearn? (Summer 2016)

Blackboard Collaborate Modernization: The Ultra Experience

Teaching Excellence Video Series: Gail Krivel-Zacks on concept mapping and designing meaningful case studies

Teaching Excellence Video Series: Jessie Key on creating video lab tutorials

BCcampus Open Textbook Project Presentation at VIU

The growth of WordPress at VIU