Centre for Teaching Excellence

Student Digital Ambassadors (SDAs) provide technical support to students on university-supported educational technology. Students can access support for educational technologies in the following ways: Course: Student Introduction to eLearn (capu.ca) on eLearn (all...

Which teaching practices are most effective in retaining students? A study from Oakland University offers some ideas.

A team of faculty from the Library, CTE, and the School of Business took part in a unique 2-day virtual sprint event. The goal? To identify and gather Indigenous-focused resources to support a new Business Diploma program hosted by the Squamish Nation.

At this year’s symposium, participants were invited to engage with one another during two “World Cafe” sessions. Showcased through the photographs and captions below, these sessions offered participants the chance to join in on discussions focused on the conference...

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.