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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 ›

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 ›

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

Michael Paskevicius
Blended Learning, Emerging technologies, Software, Technology, Video in education
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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 ›

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

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 ›

Michael Paskevicius
Emerging technologies, Open educational resources, Student Learning, Technology
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