{"id":12932,"date":"2025-05-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/ciel\/?p=12932"},"modified":"2025-05-29T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:25:28","slug":"sustainability-teaching-and-learning-showcase-series-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/ciel\/2025\/05\/29\/sustainability-teaching-and-learning-showcase-series-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability: Teaching and Learning Showcase Series 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Centre for Innovation in Excellence in Learning (CIEL) 2025 Teaching and Learning Conference: Showcase Series, featured four roundtable discussions. At each session, faculty members from different disciplines shared their work, followed by a discussion on its impact on teaching and learning. Sustainability was the theme on May 14, broadly interpreted to highlight teaching strategies that address environmental sustainability, support well-being, and build community. The roundtable featured four panelists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jerome Lesemann, Professor, Earth Sciences, presented a class-wide groundwater mapping project that highlights sustainability and authentic assessment tied to learning outcomes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Judith McIntyre, Professor, Management, shared a podcast project that demonstrates student leadership and raises awareness of sustainable development goals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wendy Simms, Professor, Education, shared strategies to foster hope when teaching and learning about sustainability issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amanda Johnson, Professor, Recreation and Tourism, discussed an approach to sustainable assessment practices that benefit both instructors and students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a recording of the roundtable presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed wp-block-embed-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sustainability - Teaching and Learning Showcase Series 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/viu.video.yuja.com\/V\/Video?v=1199597&#038;node=6584129&#038;a=156704313\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Interested in what you heard? <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Would you like to integrate sustainability into your practice? We invite you to connect with the CIEL at learnsupport@viu.ca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, we invite you to listen to the other <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/ciel\/events\/\"><strong>Showcase Series recording<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/ciel\/events\/\">s<\/a> <\/strong>to explore innovative teaching and learning practices across disciplines, including our <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/ciel\/generative-ai\/\">GenAI@VIU: In Conversation<\/a><\/em><\/strong> podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The May 14 roundtable at the 2025 Teaching and Learning Conference, hosted by the Centre for Innovation in Excellence in Learning (CIEL), focused on the theme of sustainability. 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