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Faculty Learning Community – Join Us!
Join us to share ideas, gain fresh perspectives, and connect with fellow faculty across the CapU campus in a supportive and collegial environment.
Towards a Compassionate Classroom
Lydia Watson asks: What would a compassionate classroom look like? How do we shift from feeling bad for our students to acting on our feelings?
Welcome Tania Loken to the CTE!
We are very pleased to welcome Tania Barron Loken to the Centre for Teaching Excellence as the Educational Developer – Work-Integrated Learning.
Colonized Classrooms and People Change – A Reflection
At a recent CTE meeting I joked that I should record myself and then post the reflections as blogs. Apparently, I was only half joking because that’s what I’ve now decided to do. This post is compiled from my memory of the land acknowledgement and reflection at our most recent CTE meeting.
Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning
“Dead ideas” in teaching and learning are often firmly embedded in popular culture and sometimes in the pedagogical choices we make.
Accessibility in eLearn
Recent updates to eLearn/Moodle have provided access to some new tools for building accessibility into your eLearn course site.
1st Annual Day for Academic Integrity
On Thursday, October 17th, join the Centre for Teaching Excellence, Student Affairs and the Capilano Students’ Union for the 1st Annual CapU Day for Academic Integrity! We’ll be hosting a range of events for faculty, staff, and students!
Peer Observation of Teaching and Learning Workshops 2024/25
If you’ve participated in faculty evaluations as a colleague, chair, coordinator or convenor, you may have thought to yourself, “There’s got to be a better way!”—And, you’re right!
Hyflex Pilot Project
An exciting new pilot project is running this Fall to investigate a mode of teaching and learning that is (officially) new to Capilano University.
Welcome Negar!
Please join us in welcoming our newest Educational Developer and Learning Strategist, Negar Elmieh.
Capilano University is named after Chief Joe Capilano, an important leader of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) Nation of the Coast Salish people. We respectfully acknowledge that our campuses are located on the unceded sovereign Indigenous Nations of Lil’wat, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm(Musqueam), Shíshálh (Sechelt), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh(Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh).
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