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Simulation Snippets 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 Simulation Snippets Part 1; Part II, Part III and Part IV This has been another red letter couple of weeks for the healthcare simulation suites in building 180. Last week marked my…
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Council on Learning and Teaching Excellence: Q+A for VIU Faculty
What is the Council about? What is the time commitment? The new Council on Learning and Teaching Excellence is an initiative for VIU to more fully engage faculty to have greater input into activities, direction and initiatives around teaching and learning. The Council will be composed of teaching faculty members representing all Faculties and campuses…
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Simulation Snippets Part IV
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 1; Part II, Part III and Part V For this posting I would like to talk about some of the pedagogy around simulation. The vision for our simulation…
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Reflections on the Educational Developers Caucus 2014
I recently attended the Educational Developers Caucus (EDC) hosted at the University of Calgary. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Conceptions of the profession: How institutional directions shape our practice’ (program available here). The EDC is organized by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and brings together a community of…
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Calibrated Peer Review Part IV
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 V For this posting, I would like to offer some of the student responses to the CPR process…
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Calibrated Peer Review Part III
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 IV and Part V I thought I would start this posting by describing the Calibrated Peer Review (CPR)…
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Appreciative Inquiry, Advocacy, and a bit of Green Day: Reflections of EDC 2014
I recently attended the annual Educational Developers Caucus conference in Calgary, co-hosted by the University of Calgary and Bow Valley College. For me, being back at the UofC was a nostalgic experience, even though I had to admit much has changed on campus over the last 20 years. I still managed to find some oxidizing…
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Teaching and Learning at VIU
by Darlene Goodrick, Supervisor – Printing & Duplicating, Vancouver Island University Recently I was fortunate enough to take part in the “FISH” customer service training. What is “FISH” you ask? Really? You don’t know what a fish is? OK I am kidding, that isn’t what this is about. Well sort of but not really. It…
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Shanghai Immersion
by Bryan Webber, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Management, VIU I like to think that I’ve been reasonably engaged with the international presence here at VIU. I regularly teach classes with a significant international composition (for example, one of my classes this semester has approximately 33% international students –and that’s relatively low for our courses…
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Titles: Impossible and Important
By Carrie Johns, Secretary Registrar and Convocation, Registration Centre, VIU VIU’s Registration Centre produces a brochure every semester that outlines various deadlines and guidelines pertinent to students attending classes. This brochure goes through several drafts and revisions by members of the Registration Centre before it is sent to Marketing, Advertising and Design to be produced…
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Goal Setting and Planning (Part 1): Overcoming Obstacles
By Sharon Kelly, Teaching Faculty Member and Degree Advisor, Faculty of Management/Educational Counsellor, Student Affairs, VIU VIU is an open access institution. And each year, new students join programs with big dreams and high hopes. They have spent time exploring their options, thinking and preparing, applying, getting transcripts in or assessments complete and once admitted…
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Shut in, shut out and shut up: Maternal Caregivers of Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors
By Susan Lymbery, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation and Faculty of Arts and Humanities, VIU Imagine your gifted six-year-old has just been diagnosed with an inoperable, malignant brain tumor and is expected to survive only weeks. When this happened in my family, I gave up everything to spend every moment with…