Centre for Teaching Excellence

Bettina is an experienced online learning designerand facilitator and has a solid track record of developing, facilitating and managing online and in-person adult learning, communities of practice and leadership training programs. She has taught best practice live online (i.e. WebEx) facilitation skills for educators and corporate sector professionals for more than 10 years and she loves helping instructors and learners feel empowered and excited to be creative as they use educational technologies.
Prior to joining CapU in 2005 as a Program Manager in Continuing Studies & Executive Education, Bettina worked as an organization development consultant and a training specialist in the corporate sector. She has stewarded the launch and growth of online communities of practices, led the creation of social learning spaces for employees and designed, managed and facilitated a Virtual Team Leadership Program for 100+ global leaders.

Bettina has a B.Sc. from Copenhagen Business School and a Master’s Degree in Adult Education & Workplace Learning from the University of Toronto. Her thesis research explored the facilitator’s role in enabling spaces for online collaborative learning for volunteers in a national non-profit organization.