Forget retail! Get relevant work experience

Are you looking for a rewarding volunteer or paid position that will actually contribute to your resume? Working or volunteering for a UFV department is one of the best ways to gain relevant experience, give back to your campus community, and make lasting friendships. Some other benefits of working on campus are: Convenience — You … Read more

UFV Learning App workshops — March 24-April 16

Make your online courses more meaningful. Enhance your teaching with ed tech tools from TLC’s top picks inventory. Browse our A-Z listing or find tools based on teaching outcome, popularity, and type of support. Be sure to check back regularly for updates and new apps. Upcoming Schedule: Camtasia Workshop — Wed, Mar 24 (2-3 pm) … Read more

Student Catalyst scholarship — $1,500

The Student Catalyst Scholarship is designed to support a mentoring partnership between a UFV faculty member and a UFV student with the objective of composing a work of collaborative scholarship for submission as a jointly authored article/chapter. Eligibility: All UFV students are eligible, but can only be considered if they are sponsored by a UFV … Read more

Digital Storytelling student scholarship — $400

The Digital Storytelling Scholarship is designed to bring UFV students and non-academic knowledge keepers (broadly conceived) together to share, record, and communicate digital stories so that these stories and the life experience they represent will be accessible to others into the future. Eligibility: UFV students https://www.ufv.ca/peace-and-reconciliation/funding-scholarships/digital-storytelling-student-scholarship/ For more information, contact Elicia Tournier at elicia.tournier@ufv.ca 03/31/2021

MicroCourses — Online Teaching Fundamentals — Mar 23-29

The Teaching and Learning Centre is offering an ongoing MicroCourse series of workshops (essential Blackboard tools for online courses), with synchronous sessions for each MicroCourse scheduled weekly.   Upcoming Schedule: MicroCourse 1 — Course Organization — Tues, Mar 23 at 11 am MicroCourse 2 — Adapting Instruction — Wed, Mar 24 at 1 pm MicroCourse … Read more

UFV Learning Apps — Mar 17-25

Make your online courses more meaningful. Enhance your teaching with ed tech tools from TLC’s top picks inventory. Browse our A-Z listing or find tools based on teaching outcome, popularity, and type of support. Be sure to check back regularly for updates and new apps. Upcoming Schedule: Camtasia Workshop — Wed, Mar 17 (2-3 pm) … Read more

MicroCourses — Online Teaching Fundamentals — Mar 8-April 1

The Teaching and Learning Centre is offering an ongoing MicroCourse series of workshops (essential Blackboard tools for online courses), with synchronous sessions for each MicroCourse scheduled weekly. Upcoming Schedule: MicroCourse 1 —  Course Organization — Tues, Mar 9 at 11am MicroCourse 2 — Adapting Instruction — Wed, Mar 10 at 1 pm MicroCourse 3 — … Read more

Chat – R (Chat Reconciliation) — Mar 3

Join Lorna Andrews, Teaching and Learning Specialist, Indigenization to chat about reconciliation efforts at UFV. Have an online chat about Reconciliation, Decolonization, Indigenization, or anything in association with Reconciliation. Date(s): Wed, March 3 (1- 2:30 pm) (The first Wednesday of every month (1-2:30pm) For information and registration, please contact: tlcevents@ufv.ca https://ufv.ca/teaching-and-learning/ For more information, contact … Read more

Career opportunities — March 1

Keep up with career opportunities at UFV by checking out the UFV Career Opportunities website. Current positions include: Sessional Faculty, Faculty of Health Sciences Chief Information Officer Continuing Education Instructor, Industry Services & Part-time Trade Dean, College of Arts Communications Coordinator, Dean’s Office Sessional Instructor, Career and Capstone Learning Sessional Instructor, School of Criminology and … Read more

Support Student Learning with Open Education — March 4

Open education had its beginnings in BC almost 10 years ago when the provincial government funded the creation of open textbooks with BCcampus at the helm. Since then, dozens of grants have been awarded to assist the province’s colleges, institutes and universities work in open education. In this session Lauri Aesoph, BCcampus project manager for … Read more