Learning and Sharing
Written by Katherine Kohler, TLC Learning Designer FACING UNCERTAINTY In our experience supporting faculty and staff during this difficult and unprecedented time, we at TLC have been humbled by the effort, resilience, flexibility, and compassion that instructors have shown to their students and to one another. The past months have forced us to contend with … Read more
Written by Claire Hay, Teaching and Learning Specialist The Teaching and Learning Centre website at https://www.ufv.ca/teaching-and-learning/ has undergone a makeover to better serve faculty using our site. On the new website you will find a self-serve portal to find and book workshops or book one-on-one consultations with our learning designers and specialists. Faculty can easily … Read more
Winter Learning Designer Recommendations to Make Your Teaching Even Better! Top 10 TLC resources: New TLC website New Workshop bookings New online one to one consultation bookings Download MS 365 Office Apps >ALL APPS Zoom tool integration UFV Media Centre for all video tutorials WeVu peer review for video peerScholar peer review for writing And … Read more
BCTEAL Award to fund First Aid materials for community partners Written by Victoria Surtees The TLC, in collaboration with partners from Continuing Education and Archway Community Services has been awarded $4000 from BCTEAL, the province’s professional association for Teachers of English as an Additional Language. The award will fund a project to create First Aid … Read more
Academic Success Centre Update Winter 2021 The ASC Administrative Team would like to extend our appreciation to all faculty, staff, and students who participated in our big October events: BC’s Academic Integrity Week (Oct. 18-22) and the International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating (Oct. 20). We had a great turn out, and we look … Read more
Written by Victoria Surtees, Teaching and Learning Specialist, Internationalization. Did you know you could set your Outlook Calendar to include holidays from most countries and religions across the world? You can do it in less than 2 minutes with just a few simple clicks. So why should you? Well, let’s face it, when we celebrate … Read more
Written by Dulmini Wathugala, TLC Learning Designer Cohesion of face-to-face and online instruction, roughly the same amount and never simultaneously – the “hybrid model” is no longer a novel term to us. Maybe you’re already teaching in one of many hybrid classrooms we have at UFV, either for a hybrid format or a fully face-to-face … Read more
Career Month, Poster, Gray Poehnell Listen to keynote speaker Gray Pohnell for Career Month Crafting a better story through Hope-Filled Engagement Crafting a better story through Hope-Filled Engagement is an essential skill in today’s chaotic world of life and work. We all have stories, and our stories are essential to our life/career journeys. On our … Read more
Written by Claire Hay, Teaching and Learning Specialist Recently funded through UFV’s Strategic Initiatives Fund, the UFV Library and Teaching and Learning Centre are excited to announce a new Open Education Micro Grant Program (OEMG) for 2021-22. This program is designed to support faculty adapting and developing open education resources (OERs) that will be used … Read more
Each year, TLC runs UFV Launch – a new faculty professional development program. UFV Launch is designed to provide newly hired full-time faculty members with the foundation of educational support, resources, and a learning network as they move into their new role at UFV. The program consists of two nine-week courses delivered consecutively in the … Read more