Centre for Teaching Excellence
BlogStarting your year off right
When students feel a sense of community in the classroom, they are more likely to take ownership for their own learning and feel more motivated. The Community of Inquiry Framework (COI) provides a useful guide for developing community in your course. The COI...
Free, Open, Customizable
The BC Open Collection provides free, open and customizable course materials to educators across BC.
Learning Through Place
If I stayed in a classroom…I would be thinking of the place (Lower Lonsdale), based on my own transitory experience only. I would not have noticed the eerily quiet neighbourhood streets…
Community-engaged Learning on the Land
How do you build numeracy skills and a connection to the land while providing real world experience?
Interactive eLearn with H5P
H5P is a free, versatile, open source authoring tool integrated with eLearn that allows you to quickly create, share and reuse a wide variety of interactive and engaging learning activities.
Interactivity in eLearn with H5P and ChatGPT
H5P, integrated with eLearn, allows you to create and reuse a wide variety of interactive and engaging learning objects. With an assist from ChatGPT, you can now create these activities quickly and easily.
Snapshot of Open Education at Capilano U
Open Education initiatives at Capilano continue to grow!
Introduction to eLearn
Are you new to eLearn? Trying to figure out how all the pieces fit together? This self-paced asynchronous workshop is designed to introduce you to the primary online teaching and learning platform used by Capilano University.
Strange Times: CapU Journeys Through the Pandemic – The Graphic Novel
Are you: ... fatigued and want to relax and refresh with peers? ... curious about how stick figure comics can be used to tell important stories? ... want to learn how to use open ed SPLOTs for learning activities in your courses and lessons? ... want to visually...
Teaching (Philosophy) during uncertain times
Transitioning from Emergency Remote to In-Person Teaching Like many of you, we all were genuinely looking forward, to leaving behind, “emergency remote teaching” and reconnecting with our students and our peers back on campus. Sadly, this return to campus was delayed...
Capilano University is named after Chief Joe Capilano (1854–1910), an important leader of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation of the Coast Salish Peoples. We respectfully acknowledge that our campuses are located on the unceded territories of the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), shíshálh (Sechelt), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam) Nations.
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