Keynote and PD Workshops
Helping Students Find the Gateways into Our Disciplines: Identifying and Using Threshold Concepts (Keynote) |
Not all concepts are created equal. Current research indicates that some concepts, called “threshold concepts”, open doors to disciplines in ways that other concepts to not. Threshold concepts may prove troublesome for students, but once grasped, they affect students’ understanding and identity within a discipline. In this session, Poole will discuss these concepts,including an exploration of how students can better grasp critical  constructs and how teachers can help them “pass through” these thresholds to become bone fide thinkers in the field. Working together, some key concepts in the various disciplines will be identified. |
| Dr. Gary Poole, Associate Professor in the School of Population and Public Health in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, and Senior Scholar at the Centre for Health Education Scholarship |
Would You Hire Your Own Students? |
Your students may get excellent marks in your courses but how will they fare out in the workplace? Do they display professional attitudes and behaviours? In the past few years faculty in the School of Business at Camosun have noticed a shift in their interactions with incoming students. It is becoming commonplace to encounter learners who do not always exhibit or understand the behaviors and actions appropriate for a business school. Our students are our ambassadors and representatives when out in the workplace and we feel it is important that they demonstrate professional attitudes and behaviours, as well as the practical skills for which they are in demand. In the fall of 2010, the School of Business launched an initiative to promote and support professional behaviour in students. We began by fostering a culture of professional attitudes and behaviour throughout the School by introducing and promoting the Top 10 Professional Values. As an adjunct to the Values, we developed stronger cheating/plagiarism guidelines, implemented an ‘honesty statement’ and created guidelines regarding the use of technology (cell phones, laptops, etc) in the classroom. We’ve only just begun! Join Leslie Painter (Accounting and Accounting/Business Software), Anne Borrowman (Business Management/Marketing), Carole Gosse (Human Resources Management and Leadership), Patricia Gaudreault (Legal Office Assistant Department Chair), and Alison Parker (Accounting) in this workshop to discuss our process and progress with the Top 10 Professional Values initiative. |
| L. Painter Camosun College |
Providing Student Feedback: Best Practices |
Have you ever wondered whether you are providing students with appropriate feedback on their written work? This interactive session will help you make the most of the time you invest in providing students with feedback on essays, papers, cases, and projects. Participants will review a short student paper, and discuss alternative feedback approaches.  We will then compare these approaches to the findings and recommendations of research regarding the most effective and efficient forms of feedback. |
| Sheila Elworthy & Susan K. Wolcott CA School of Business |
BC Council on Admissions and Transfer Update |
| This update will cover BCCAT activities in the current academic year and directions for next year. Recent research on student mobility in the province will be presented including: Eligible Transfer Student Cohort Study--key findings from group of 22,500 students who moved institutions from 2004 to 2010; STP Newsletter: Movers and Transfers in the BC Public Post Secondary System--includes mobility trends and projections; Research Results: English Proficiency Requirements at BC Post-secondary institutions: Challenges posed for Students; Research Results: Students who move from Research Universities to Other Post-secondary Institutions. Transfer activities related to block transfer and changes in the BC Transfer Guide, the use of flexible pre-majors in many academic disciplines, and sending and receiving designations for institutions will also be covered with time for questions and discussion. |
| John FitzGibbon BC Council on Admissions and Transfer |
Enhancing Learning Environments: Making course archives available for current and future learning |
| This presentation will outline a learning model that integrates course artifacts into current and future versions of courses. This will include partial results of an ongoing doctoral research study on the use and value of online course archives. Based upon principles of organizational knowledge creation theory, this study suggests that the day-to-day online discussions, bookmarks and collaborative writing produced throughout the time of any given online course contain evidence of tacit knowing and other processes relevant to understanding, the learning process, and knowledge creation. These artifacts are key elements in the learning process. Typically each section of an online or blended learning course begins afresh with all of the artifacts, conversations and resources from past sections removed. It is believed that this removal results in the loss of valuable insights, resources and traces of tacit and explicit knowledge. The presentation will overview the potential use of this valuable archive, outline the current research that uses two years of archived content to enrich the learning of two subsequent sections of a graduate, online course in a Masters of Distance Education program, and present preliminary findings of this research. |
| Stuart Berry Camosun College |
Yoga |
In our high speed world, we are taken away from a place of stillness, and into a place of here and there making little time to relax and unwind. We work too much and play not enough. This session will focus on how we can bring a sense of awareness to our day in just a few minutes. With full breaths and slow movements we can encourage ourselves, and our students to relax and make education a more rewarding and life enhancing experience. In this session you will learn and experience different ways of breathing into the body and enjoy some of the many wonderful health benefits of yoga. |
| Michelle Mitschrich |
Shifting Paradigms at BCs New Special-Purpose Teaching Universities: The Issue of Rank and Advancement at Kwantlen Polytechnic University |
Five BC postsecondary institutions received the new designation “Special-Purpose Teaching University” [SPTU] in 2008. The new designation has brought significant change in some areas; for example, the nature of internal governance structures. New discussions have resulted from such change, including the implementation of alternative academic rank and advancement [ARA] systems for faculty. This session highlights discussions around ARA at one of the five new SPTUs – Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Rationale for an alternative system, faculty perspectives, and solution-seeking processes for the ARA question at Kwantlen will be presented. Time will be reserved for open dialogue regarding ARA amongst session participants. |
| Don Reddick Kwantlen Polytechnic University |
Course Redesign – “Create. Innovate. Collaborate.” |
Join on for a dialogue on innovative learning strategies across a broad range of institutions and programs. This session will focus on key trends in learning, best practices in online and blended learning, ideas for education innovation and insights into collaborative learning. With the goal of promoting effective teaching, we work with educators to create course-specific materials that engage students and facilitate student success. When educators streamline course materials to mirror course goals, they take control of what their students purchase for class and how that content is delivered, which means better educational value, often with lower costs and less waste. |
| Coral Kennett Pearson Education |
A Strategic Problem Solving Approach for Teaching Ethical Reasoning Skills |
Ethics is an essential component of business education, yet professors may be unsure how to build ethics into their courses and programs. This session will introduce a cognitive development approach for:
The session will also introduce a strategic framework for business ethics, including its relationship to sustainability management and management control, and provide ideas for classroom learning activities. Handout materials will include examples of learning outcomes, assignments, and rubrics. The material introduced in this session can be used in any course—from an entire course devoted to ethics to a course focusing on other content with only a small ethics component. The material will also be useful for considering program-wide ethics education. |
| Susan K. Wolcott CA School of Business |
Articulating Intermediate Accounting |
This session will address the foundational requirements for articulating intermediate accounting and compare these needs to core content and assessment. We will discuss influences on the curriculum including changes in industry, application as well as designation requirements. We will show how traditional and online content can meet the learning objectives of the |
| George Fisher Pearson Education |
Making the Most of Email: Best Practices for Electronic Communication Technology |
Are you spending too much time dealing with e-mails? Are you getting good value for the time spent on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook? Are these the best methods for approaching students, faculty, and administrators? This interactive session will help you make best use of time spent electronically interacting with students, faculty, administration, and others. We will discuss the costs and benefits of electronic communication, and research regarding |
| Sheila Elworthy CA School of Business |
SNAP 2010 |
SNAP 2010 is our Internet-based Training and Assessment tool for Microsoft Certified Office 2010 that features “live-in the application” Skill Assessments! SNAP is a stand-alone product, or can be used in conjunction with our Textbooks. Learn more about the tool and the new features available. |
| Paradigm Publishing |
Business Book Talkin’ |
Finding it hard to keep up with reading in your field? Wondering what Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Chip Heath and Jon Katzenbach have written recently? Join College  Librarian Sybil Harrison for this fast-paced and lively review of some of the best in recent business and leadership publishing. Participants will leave the session with a robust summer reading list. |
| Sybil Harrison Camosun College |
MS Office & SAM |
SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) is the premier proficiency-based assessment and training environment for Microsoft® Office. SAM offers instructors a CHOICE of the way they want to use our content. Students are continually ENGAGED in their learning. Focusing on OUTCOMES is a key factor to using SAM successfully. The SAM System: Assessment, Training, and Projects
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| Nelson Publishing |
SAM Assessment helps evaluate students' proficiency at Microsoft Office applications. Instructors can build custom exams with SAM so that students will know how to use Office skills beyond the classroom. 
Tegrity Campus and LearnSmart |
What did thousands of students tell us was the most important valued part of your course? Your class lecture! Please join us so we can show you how Tegrity Campus can work in your classroom. Tegrity lets you make your lectures available to your students to search, replay, and review outside of class. Research with over 6000 students showed that your lecture is the most valued part of their learning experience. With the simple click on your computer, your lectures are automatically captured, stored, and indexed. Just click to start recording and it is all done for you and your students. During the workshop we will also show you McGraw Hill’s recent innovation LearnSmart. LearnSmart is a diagnostic learning system that determines the level of student knowledge, then feeds the student appropriate content. Students learn faster and study more efficiently! LearnSmart is an unparalleled learning system based on cognitive mapping that diagnoses students’ knowledge of a particular subject and then creates an individualized learning path geared towards student success. It offers individualized assessment by delivering appropriate learning material in the form of questions, at the right time, and so helping students attain mastery of the concept. Assigned by Instructors, or used by students as a study tool, the results are recorded in an easy to use grade book. As a student works within the system, the personal |
| Claire Morrison & Bruce McIntosh McGraw Hill Ryerson |
Indigenizing Business Curriculum – Reflection & Inclusion |
For the past five years, Camosun has sought to increase the inclusion of Indigenous realities into programs and courses to meet the needs of a growing cohort of Aboriginal learners. With more First Nation and Métis communities engaging in self-governance and building management capacity, these communities are seeking programs and courses that recognize the nuances of Indigenous business and management. Join me in this session to discuss how to increase Indigenous knowledge capacity with non-aboriginal faculty (through professional development opportunities) and hear some examples of how Camosun is starting to include Indigenous pedagogies, content and voices into curriculum and programs. |
| Dianne Biin Camosun College |
E-mail: beac2011@camosun.bc.ca
Phone: 250-370-4123