Author Sally Vinden

Jessica Gemella, Chair and Instructor for the Horticulture Program at VIU, aims to enhance her students’ experience this coming semester by expanding the walls of her digital classroom far beyond Nanaimo, BC. Jessica plans to provide her students with several… Continue Reading →

If you haven’t made bread before Covid-19, I’m pretty sure you may have given it go at some point over the past 14 weeks. I know I did! Well, it’s not as easy as it looks – that is all… Continue Reading →

Rita Gower, Chair/Instructor, VIU Professional Bake & Pastry Arts Program, was quick to recognize how Zoom conferencing tool could provide the right media for her students to present part of their final capstone project. In doing so, her students also… Continue Reading →

Richard Kobayashi
VIU Electrical Trades Instructor

We are thrilled to let you know that Jessica Gemella, Chair & Instructor, Horticulture Program, has been awarded the Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching Design and Practice, 2020. To get a glimpse into Jessica’s passion for teaching and learning,… Continue Reading →

Like many trades instructors in BC, Buddy Wolfe, Culinary Arts and Hospitality Instructor at VIU, has recently found himself searching for alternatives to the traditional assessment methods used in face2face teaching & learning settings, such as multiple-choice questions. In this… Continue Reading →

VIU’s Esthetics Program – On the topic of Community: Lesley Osborne, Chair & Instructor, VIU Esthetics Program, speaks about what happened when COVID-19 halted progress in the Esthetics program: “The Class were in their last few weeks of the program,… Continue Reading →

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Last week as many trades students in BC approached the end of their semester, instructors were faced with decisions about which assessment approaches to use in the online classroom. Traditionally in trades, final exams consist of multiple-choice exams and quizzes… Continue Reading →