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Category: Assessment and evaluation

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Assessment and evaluation / Explore other programs / Getting started

Primary research about online orientation

Taking Orientation Online is full of information about online orientation programs, and all of it is based on published research, or my own experience with UVic’s Pre-Arrival Program. However, sometimes …

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Assessment and evaluation

A simple model for assessing your online orientation program

If we’re going to dedicate time and energy to creating and maintaining an online orientation program, we’re going to want to have some kind of evidence that the program is …

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Assessment and evaluation / Designing learning activities / Getting started

10 lessons learned from our first launch

Launching a new program is always a learning experience, and launching UVic’s Pre-Arrival Program was no different. Reading through the feedback in our end-of-program survey really highlighted what mattered to …

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