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Teaching Excellence Video Series: Heather Pastro on engaging students, establishing trust and building confidence
Heather Pastro from Education discusses her methods for working with students who are at very different levels in the subject matter. Heather discusses the methods she uses to build trust with her students so that they can excel in class. Heather discusses the way in which she provides feedback to students in order to build…
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Teaching Excellence Video Series: Alan Gilchrist on coordinating group work and using problem based learning
Alan Gilchrist from Geography shares his strategies for organizing successful group work. In this video Alan shares his strategies for implementing problem-based learning
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Teaching Excellence Video Series: Greg Bush on creating authentic learning experiences
Greg Bush from Music discusses his LITE Grant project in which he invited a composer to his Jazz Ensemble class to create custom-designed music written just for them.
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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.
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Teaching Excellence Video Series: Eric Demers on hands on experience, conservation research and student skills development
Eric Demers and students from Biology discuss their experiences learning to bird band at VIU.
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Teaching Excellence Video Series: Louis Mattar on getting to know students, gathering feedback and flipping the classroom
Louis Mattar from Sport, Health & Physical Education shares his strategies for getting to know students, gathering feedback and flipping the classroom.
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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. Clint was joined by Jessie Key, one of three BC Campus Faculty Fellows; post-secondary educators…
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Orientation to VIULearn (D2L) for Students – Spring 2015
Many courses offered at VIU use our online learning management system, VIULearn. To help prepare you for your course, VIU is offering free orientation workshops to VIULearn. These are available either face-to-face on Nanaimo campus or online for all students. It is not mandatory for you to attend an orientation workshop. During the workshop we will…
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Skills and Post-Secondary Education Summit: Five Year Initiative on Canadian Education
I attended possibly the best learning experience I have had in recent years! The 2nd Annual Skills and Post-Secondary Education Summit was an extremely well-organized, wonderfully-designed experience for sharing expertise and new knowledge along with research insights and directions for post-secondary education in Canada. For the past decade or so, I have been on…
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Culture in the Classroom: Final Session Summary
Our final meeting for the Culture in the Classroom series took place on November 20th. Although this was our last meeting, in some ways it felt like we were just getting started. Clearly, eight hours spread across four sessions was only enough to scratch the surface. Many participants indicated that they would have liked to…
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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…