Early in March I had the pleasure to join the Global Open Education Graduate Network (GO-GN) for their annual meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. The meeting was held in advance of the Open Education Global Conference also being held
I am so fortunate to be able to attend the Open Education Global Conference 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa next month. Thanks to a generous grant by the Global OER Graduate Network I am able to not only attend the
Our teaching and learning centre offers both a Spring and Fall faculty orientation to teaching which is pitched at faculty new to Vancouver Island University (VIU). The purpose of this event is to introduce faculty to teaching and learning resources
After writing a significant piece of work, I have in the past tried to create visualizations of the work. This may be done by drawing upon the citations in the literature and their linkages to sections of the paper or themes
I initiated my candidacy examinations this month and on November 2nd received two writing prompts which I had to respond to, each via a 20 page paper. One of the prompts focuses on the literature while the other asks the
Last week during the VIULearns event on the Nanaimo campus I had a chance to engage students directly with the idea of open education. I positioned our booth to draw students in around all aspects of open education; including open
Some good insights on the use of robots to support telepresence with examples from higher education. Specifically the article provides a synthesis on the value that robotic presence brings to communication as opposed to other forms of synchronous meetings and some considerations
This summer I am working with the Digital Learning and Social Media Research Group on a project to investigate discourses around openness in education happening on Twitter. This is a chance for PhD students and very early career researchers to
I presented at the Festival of Learning in Vancouver this month on our progress supporting educational video and the development of a Lightboard for VIU. Having launched VIUTube on our campus, we have seen a tremendous growth in faculty and student
It has been a while since my last post but I finally got around to distilling the “By the light of the Tao” article by Humphrey (2009). I think she does a lovely job of articulating the challenges to meaningful reflection in relation to experiential learning. This was written with input from my colleague Tine … Continue reading “Experiential Learning and the Reflection Process”