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ePortfolio Overview
What is an ePortfolio? One of the most comprehensive definitions of ePortfolios comes from Gabriele Bauer from Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Delaware: The academic ePortfolio is a selective set of online, reflective, integrative, and personal documents that present how you have developed as a scholar-teacher in your discipline. It offers evidence of…
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Calibrated Peer Review Part 1
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For the all postings on this subject see Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part V In the fall term of 2013, 1st and 2nd year Bachelor of Science in Nursing faculty along with the Centre for Innovation…
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Motivating Students: Resources for Faculty to Engage Learners
One of the most frequent questions I get in my role working with faculty is on the topic of motivation. How to motivate the ‘unmotivated’ student? How to engage students when all existing strategies have failed to engage? How to get students to be involved in their own learning? Here are a collection of articles,…
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Simulation Snippets Part 1
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all the Simulation Snippet Postings see Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part V I think it is safe to say that all practice oriented programs use simulation in some form or other to…
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5X5X25 Challenge: Open Blogging with VIU Employees
The 5 X 5 X 25 Challenge! Wanting to do something a bit different this term to engage more than just teaching faculty in our offerings, I found an idea on Faculty Focus about a college in the US who issued a 9 X 9 X 25 challenge to their faculty – blogging 9…
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Teaching Faculty Scholars
For the past four months, I have been co-facilitating a full year faculty development program with Liesel Knaack and Michael Paskevicius. We arrived at the idea of offering this program by acknowledging that while many institutes of higher education design and facilitate support programs for faculty, these programs are often limited in time and content. …
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Metacognitive Teaching Strategies: Helping Students Learn how to Learn
Session 3: Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP), Fall, 2013 Perhaps the most popular of the fall CoSTP sessions, Metacognitive Teaching Strategies: Helping Students Learn How to Learn generated two engaging discussions related to topics inherent to helping students learn how to learn. A relatively new research area for post-secondary educators to sink their teeth…
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Reaching All Students: How to design learning for variety of needs and abilities in classroom
Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP): Session 2 (Fall, 2013) Toward the end of October, the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) convened for the second time VIU’s Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP). After an invigorating first session on High Impact Practices, participants came together this time to discuss the theme Reaching…
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Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP): Session 1 (Fall, 2013)
High Impact Educational Practices On Wednesday October 9th and Thursday, October 10th, the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) convened its first Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP). This group was comprised of faculty and staff at VIU interested in using a seminar-style approach to developing their knowledge of both the theory and…
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Validation and encouragement to carry on…can be found at a conference!
My colleague Lynda Robinson and I attended The Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment (CAPLA) in Toronto, Ontario, November 17-19, 2013. CAPLA is a non-profit, membership based organization with a voluntary board of directors, the Chair none other than our own Student Affairs Executive Director, Patrick J. Donahoe, PhD. Please see The History of CAPLA…
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Blogging in the “global Common Room”
I really liked the recent description of academic blogging as the creation of a “global Common Room”. Maybe it’s the memory of my two sabbatical terms spent in England, where the Common Room tradition was still alive and well…for our “elevenses”, Mrs. Cambridge came in each day to make the tea. (Does that still happen,…
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Reflections of a Novice: Educational Developers Caucus Institute, October 28-30, 2013
Last month, I had the privilege of attending the Educational Developers Caucus (EDC) Institute at the University of British Columbia in sunny Vancouver. Yes, it was sunny in Vancouver. The institute was facilitated by Ruth Rodgers and Alice Cassidy, two of Canada’s leading educational developers. Ruth and Alice brought not only their experience and expertise…