VIU Announces New Caribbean Educational Technology Cooperation

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  • Vancouver Island University (VIU) helps Caribbean institutions grow and expand their online learning capabilities.

The new $480,000 international partnership project, in partnership with Durham College and Humber College, will build capacity at campuses in Belize, Jamaica, Grenada, Dominica, Guyana and Saint Lucia integrating educational technology into their teaching practice.

The project is part of the Skills for Green Economy Canada Colleges and Institutions (SAGE) program funded by Global Affairs Canada.

VIU’s Global Engagement Team and subject experts from the Center for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) will be implementing the project over the next two years.

“COVID has really exposed the need for online learning opportunities and in many of these countries it is not part of their teaching toolbox,” he said. “As a result, when the pandemic hit, many of their classes had to close because they couldn’t switch to online learning, or if they did, it was in a very rudimentary way.”

Darrell Harvey, VIU’s Director of Global Engagement, said the need for a project like this has really come to light during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Exciting opportunity for Anwen Burk, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Specialist at VIU. Her areas of interest include integrating technology into face-to-face, blended, and online courses. She will be one of the leading experts on VIU issues for the duration of this project.

“Partnerships like these give everyone involved the opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills in ways that can positively impact their respective communities,” says Burk. surname. “It also creates new international learning communities and challenges us to think about our own work in new and innovative ways.”

The project will assess the needs of instructors at campuses in each of the six Caribbean partner countries to determine their position on knowledge and skills in e-learning and teaching, what tools currently exist and what others can be used to design, develop, and deliver an online teaching and learning program that meets their needs. Burk is happy to work with people taking on similar roles to her at other organizations.

“This will be an opportunity to exchange different theoretical and practical approaches to the work we are doing,” she said. “It will broaden and enrich my knowledge in this area and I look forward to applying that knowledge to the work I do at VIU.”

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