Voices from JIBC

Faculty Corner | Sherri Calder

Sherri Calder Faculty, Law Enforcement Studies Diploma We asked a few faculty around campus who are teaching this September: What’s new this September?  Our amazing faculty member, Sherri Calder, had this to say… “I am happy to be back on campus to teach CRES 1853 &

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Voices from JIBC | Florence Daddey

Florence Daddey Florence has long been a champion of Open Education pedagogy and principles and was instrumental in securing our Open Education Sustainability Grant from BCcampus in 2019. Her research was one of the first efforts supported by the grant initiative. Florence used her research to

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Faculty Corner | Dr. Joe Naylor

Dr. Joe Naylor​ We asked a few faculty around campus who are teaching this September: What’s new this September?  Faculty member Dr. Joe Naylor broke it down like this… Simply Showing Up  What’s new? Here’s something I came up with last week for the first day

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Faculty Corner | Chris Rattenbury

Chris Rattenbury Faculty, Bachelor Law Enforcement Studies, Acting Program Manager for Police Advance Training We asked a few faculty around campus who are teaching this September: What’s new this September? Acting program manager and faculty, Chris Rattenbury, graciously spent some time to answer our question. As of September,

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Voices from JIBC | Daryce Lovsin

Darcye Lovsin JIBC’s Librarian for Reference and Instruction Library contributes to our Open issue the following article discussing open assignments. Please enjoy! About Darcye Over the course of my career as an academic librarian, my primary focus has been copyright and open education. As the

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Voices from JIBC | Junsong Zhang

Junsong Zhang Junsong Zhang is an Instructional Designer and Program Manager for Simulations at CTLI. Five Practices for Rapid Course Design and Development Posted on May 20, 2020 From Junsong’s personal blog: Start with Backward Course Design Approach If you start your course design with content

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Faculty Corner | Michelle Jackson

Michelle Jackson Faculty, Fire Safety Division We asked a Fire Safety Division faculty member, Michelle Jackson, how the start of her semester has been going and here’s what she had to say: How have you been adjusting to all the changes of the past year+?

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Voices | Kavita George

Kavita George Senior Web Specialist, CTLI What is a barrier to learning that you have experienced or are aware of that you’d like to see eliminated? What is something you’ve done in your work (as an instructor, course developer, administrator, etc.) to improve accessibility in

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Voices from JIBC | Darcye Lovsin

Darcye Lovsin Darcye is the Librarian, Reference & Instruction at the JIBC Library. Library Considerations when Course Planning One of the areas in the institute that we knew we wanted to reach out to when planning this issue was our very own JIBC Library, and

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Accessibility Tips for Assessments

While assessments are always a challenging time for students, there are a few things that JIBC can do to reduce those barriers. Kavita shares how we at JIBC could focus on reducing the cognitive, motor, and physical load for students and try to provide an equivalent experience for all learners.

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