Centre for Teaching Excellence

Dr. Sally Willis-Stewart, Associate Professor from the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBC Okanagan, helped close out the 2023 Teaching and Learning Symposium with a high-energy and practice-based talk titled “‘Healthifying’ our curriculum and the impact of...

Colleagues, staff, administrators, and friends and family came together on Wednesday May 3 to celebrate the achievements of the 2023 Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) recipients. This year, Kofi Gbolonyo (Performing Arts - Jazz), Jerome Genz (Kinesiology), Laura...

What do you need at CapU to support your teaching and learning? How can the Centre for Teaching Excellence best support you in your goals? Answer this short Faculty Needs Assessment survey and help us prioritize what matters for you for the coming year....

With the eLearn upgrade to Moodle 4.1 on May 1st comes some new functionality for the Database activity that you might find useful for your course. The Database activity allows the instructor and/or students to build, display and search a structured collection of...

We now invite proposals for workshops, presentations, and roundtable conversations for Capilano University’s Teaching and Learning Symposium 2023.  A culture of health and well-being is at the center of Envisioning 2030, so how do we center health and well-being in our teaching practices?

Brit Paris, Director, Teaching and Learning, invites you to join the first Let’s Talk Teaching and Learning series focused on Generative AI and its potential impacts on teaching and learning.

Have you been experimenting with creating your own video resources? Ready to try some new tricks? The CTE is piloting a program to assist faculty in creating video for their online course sites by providing a kit of simple, relatively low cost equipment to sign out and try at home.

A new form of Artificial Intelligence has entered the space of higher education with the recent launch of ChatGPT. This new tool will write anything you ask it to: Text, code, images and more. This makes it appear to be a disruptive technology and it offers an...

Who are you as a teacher and where are your learning edges? Join us for the Teaching Portfolio workshop, where we will reflect on and explore our teaching and learning experiences, learn how to demonstrate our effectiveness as teachers and identify our own learning edges.

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!