Category: Teaching & Learning
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Simulation Snippets Part II
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 I, Part III, Part IV and Part V I thought I would talk today about what we have used our simulation suites for so far. As I…
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How Students Influence Your Teaching Style
by Doris Carey, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation Much of the literature on teaching and learning styles came from pop culture magazine surveys that concluded that you had a visual style of you liked to look at pictures, an auditory learning style if you liked to chat on the phone, and…
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Learning and Teaching in the Print Shop
by Darlene Goodrick, Supervisor, Printing and Duplicating, VIU In the short time I have been here at VIU I am blown away by what this University has to offer. As a CUPE member, staff can partake in funded learning to better themselves and their resume. Is this rare in the working world? It is where…
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The Presentation Problem
by Anna Atkinson, Teaching Faculty Member, English Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, VIU Some years ago, the English Department undertook an exit survey of its graduating students. In that survey, one of the things that surfaced struck my colleagues and me as both surprising, and, upon reflection, perhaps a bit obvious. The problem had…
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The Tension between “What” and “How” in Teaching
by Bryan Webber, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Management, VIU I have come to believe that living in the ongoing tension between the “what” and the “how” is of critical importance to me as an educator. I always need to accompany anything I wish students to learn with the question of how such learning can…
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What to say about teaching and learning?
by Rob Ferguson, Teaching Faculty Member and Co-Chair, Department of Recreation and Tourism Management, Faculty of Management, VIU What to say about teaching and learning? For me, linking these two terms with ‘and’ has always seemed somewhat problematic. The English language seems to fall short here in capturing the essence of teaching and learning by…
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My First Year at a Teaching and Learning Centre
by Melissa Robertson, Learning Technologies Support Specialist, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL), VIU For my first post in the 5X5X25 challenge, I decided to reflect on my learning journey while working at the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning. When I first started at the Centre, I had decided I no…
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Cell Phone Obsession—Are Students Paying Attention Anymore?
by Andrea Noble, Online Course Support Assistant, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL), VIU “To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones. For many of us, going to concerts, lectures, the movies, or social activities provided time to be…
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Language as a Tool and a Barrier
by Olaf Ernst, Visiting Scholar, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences I am writing these first words of my very first blog post in the middle of the night, after I suddenly woke up thinking about a specific term in English which I could not remember… Hi everyone, my name is Olaf Ernst and it…
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Skeletons as Learning Tools
by Wendy Simms, Technician, Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU Every two years, the VIU Biology Department offers a course called Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (Biology 358). Part of the laboratory component of this course requires students to rearticulate an animal skeleton. It is an extremely popular project not only because it involves drills and…
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Seating Arrangements in Your Classroom
by Nick Yaremchuk, Teacher, The International High School, VIU More and more teachers that I talk to are considering how seating arrangements in their classrooms affect their teaching, affect their students’ learning, and affect discourse in their classrooms. For many educators, gone are the days of straight rows of desks with students facing the front…
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Where Do You Learn That?
By Carrie Johns, Secretary Registrar and Convocation, Registration Centre, VIU My son is two years old. He learns new skills and new words at an incredible rate: yesterday, he pulled on his shoes by himself – today, he asked for chocolate milk and French fries for dinner. (I expect that tomorrow, I’ll hand him the…