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Starting your year off right

Starting 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...

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Learning Through Place

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…

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Interactive eLearn with H5P

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.

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Introduction to eLearn

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.

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Teaching (Philosophy) during uncertain times

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...

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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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