It’s Friday. Or Wednesday. Or Tuesday afternoon. And my colleagues and I are on our way to the Paine Centre, VIU’s 32-acre horticulture facility. A quick 10-minute drive from the main campus, past a winery and a honey farm, the… Read more ›
This page outlines details about Portfoliopalooza, a series of hands-on portfolio and writing sessions, running from May 14 – 17. Contact: Tine Reimers Portfoliopalooza! A Week of Workshops and Hands-On Sessions for Building the Portfolio of your Choice The Centre… Read more ›
TO ACCESS PAGE: Click on the image above to take you to login page OR this link https://learn.viu.ca/ If you reached this page by entering https://learn.vu.ca in your browser, you will need to clear cached internet pages from your browser. Please… Read more ›
Energize Student Participation and Improve Attendance with Team-Based Learning August 20-22, for Fall 2018 Implementation The evidence is solid in support of the teaching model called “Team-Based Learning,” developed by organizational behaviour specialist Larry K. Michaelsen. Team-Based Learning is a… Read more ›
Energize Student Participation and Improve Attendance with Team-Based Learning Workshop: August 20-22, for Fall 2018 Implementation The evidence is solid in support of the teaching model called “Team-Based Learning,” developed by organizational behaviour specialist Larry K. Michaelsen. Team-Based Learning is… Read more ›
New Process for VIULearn Course Cleanup Status: Currently we have over 40,000 courses dating back to Intersession 2012 when we began using D2L’s Brightspace software (branded VIULearn). Many of these courses were never used or are not used anymore. The accumulation of… Read more ›
By Liesel Knaack, Director, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning, Vancouver Island University PDF of Blog Post (1.5 MB) British Columbia’s Kindergarten to Grade 12 education system is being updated and enhanced. New mandated curriculum for Kindergarten (K) to… Read more ›
It’s been six months since Vancouver Island University (VIU) flipped the switch to Daylight (D2L’s new responsive design interface for their learning environment, Brightspace) on April 30, 2017 – and our story stays the same – all is well! Seriously,… Read more ›
This page outlines details about VIU’s Blended and Online Learning Course Redesign Institute running from December 2017 – May 2018. Facilitators: Kathleen Bortolin, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Specialist, Stephanie Boychuk, Learning Technologies Support Specialist, and Maxwell Stevenson, Associate Director, Centre for Innovation and… Read more ›
Part 2: What do I do? (Part 1) 7:20am: Arrive at Vancouver Island University. Walk in and smile at the rogue bunnies. Turn a blind eye to the faculty member who is feeding the rogue bunnies. 7:30am: Host an early… Read more ›
