Category: General
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Changes to the ‘My Home’ Page in VIULearn
The Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning is making changes to the page that you land on when logging into VIULearn. The new page configuration will give you access to information and events that will help you improve your learning and will also allow you to enrol in a limited (but growing) selection of…
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New Course Homepages in VIULearn
The Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning is currently reviewing Course Homepages in VIULearn. We have received feedback from various VIU stakeholders and are incorporating this feedback into a new course homepage design. We are hoping to update and refresh the course homepage look and feel for the Fall 2015 term. The course homepage…
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Culture in the Classroom Session 3 Recap
Our third session of Culture in the Classroom focused on pedagogy and some practical tips and suggestions related to teaching and learning. We started the session by reviewing our homework— the resources listed in the previous blogpost. A number of interesting points were raised during this discussion including the following: It is important for higher…
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Culture in the Classroom: Session 2 Recap and Resources
Our second session of the learning series, Culture in the Classroom: Working with International Students, focused on intercultural competence models and cultural values frameworks. Mackenzie started us off with a mini-lecture outlining Darla Deardorff’s process model for intercultural competence, which looks like this (click on the image for a larger view): This model explains the…
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Culture in the classroom: Session 1 Recap and Resources
On September 18th, 15 participants from the VIU community attended the first session of Culture in the classroom: Working with international students, a collaborative learning series offered through the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning and International Education. After a brief introduction of our interdisciplinary group, Mackenzie Sillem facilitated a lively and fast-paced ice-breaker.…
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Culture in the classroom: Working with international students
Are you interested in continuing to grow your knowledge and skills in working most effectively with international students? If so, we’re hoping to help. This semester, Kathleen Bortolin (Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning) and Mackenzie Sillem (International Education) are co-facilitating a four-part series entitled Culture in the classroom: Working with international students. Currently there…
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Innovative Learning Scapes 2014
by Kathleen Bortolin, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning, Vancouver Island University Reflections on the 2014 Higher Education Teaching and Learning (HETL) Conference, Anchorage, Alaska Flying into Anchorage, Alaska, hemmed in on either side by views of snow-capped mountains rising out of the ocean, I began wishing I had packed my hiking boots and…
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day – May 15th
May 15th was Global Accessibility Awareness Day. As someone who spends a lot of time in online courses personally and professionally, I decided to take advantage of a free webinar entitled “Web Accessibility Tools in Action: Awesome Tools to Build The Web For All” offered by Desire2Learn. Sean Yo (@seanyo or seanyo.ca for more information on…
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A light-bulb moment 30 years in the making
by Sandra Johnstone, Teaching Faculty, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU Illumination A few weeks ago I had a busy day. I attended a morning meeting to discuss learning outcomes for our programs in the Earth Science department. In the afternoon my daughter and I jumped on the ferry to visit my parents. Over the…
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International Women’s Day
by Melissa Robertson, Learning Technologies Support Specialist, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning, VIU This year International Women’s day will fall on Saturday March 8th. The UN theme for International Women’s Day 2014 is “Equality for Women is Progress for All”. The purpose of this day is to encourage advocacy for all women. The…
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QuickWrites
By Sherryl Maglione (Miss Magz), Cowichan Campus, ABE English Instructor, Vancouver Island University I used to have an exercise like that back in elementary, but with computers, and the exercise was quick-type. I hated it, though. But with this quick-write, I personally found it easy enough that I could enjoy the exercise. Plus, it’s a…
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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…