Learning and Sharing
To promote and raise awareness for the National Accessibility Week, May 31 – June 4, 2021, the Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) and the Centre for Accessibility Services (CAS) are hosting a three-Day Online event featuring keynote presenters, workshops, a student panel, and other relevant sessions to showcase and learn about accessibility. Save the Dates … Read more
The Centre for Experiential and Career Education, in partnership with UFV International and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam have successfully piloted the Global Challenge: Vietnam Initiative with the UFV’s School of Business in Winter 2020. The initiative has been built on project-based and team-based learning pedagogies. An in-class research-driven … Read more
UFV Academic Success Centre team featured in a zoom session during the PAWS event. Sandra Smith is top row, center. There’s nothing like a pandemic to spark innovation, and Sandra Smith, the Academic Success Centre’s Coordinator, was recently lauded for exactly that. She and two colleagues from Simon Fraser University, Ruth Silverman and Julia Lane, … Read more
Educators Journey Towards Reconciliation (EJTR) This workshop will take us on a journey to discover challenges and best practices in decolonizing our education practice and the classroom. Based on your experiences and knowledge of Indigenous history and issues, we will explore strategies for creating a culturally safe learning environment and indigenizing through reconciling Indigenous worldviews, … Read more
Join us for a TLC Special Guest Speaker Wed, March 31, 2021 (12-1 pm) with Dr. Rebekah Taussig Presenting ” Invited to the Table: Making Learning More Accessible for Students” Dr. Rebekah Taussig is a Kansas City writer and teacher with her doctorate in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies. She has led workshops at the … Read more
Small Teaching Online: Lessons from Part 1 of the Book
Faculty, staff, and administrators are invited to a day of professional development to connect virtually with colleagues, learn tools, tips and trends in higher ed, and grow UFV towards the future together.
The theme this year is “Be well. Learn well. Work well. The connection between good health and academic and workplace performance.”
More details to come!
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Welcome to the end of the fall semester and 2020. For many of us the fall semester proved to be a significant learning experience in online learning delivery. There was some developing and fine-tuning along the way with activities added/dropped/modified or assessments revised to suit the needs of your students. It is nice to know … Read more
A recent survey on blended learning find that the most preferred medium to enhance student learning is video, which comes as no big surprise. This is why we have a slew of how-to instructional videos for your students (and for you, the instructor, too, don’t worry). Are students asking you how to post a video … Read more
