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Teaching and Learning Symposium 2024: Call for Proposals
We invite all faculty to submit a proposal sharing how you nurture learning at Capilano University.
Reimagining Grading: Faculty Learning Community
Back by popular demand! This Spring let’s explore how alternative grading can transform teaching to focus on student learning instead of grades.
Assessment & Evaluation of Learning Spring 2024
This popular facilitated online workshop series provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement a comprehensive strategy for designing assessments that are effective, aligned and ethical.
Generative AI Community of Practice
This Fall the CTE has been running an online Community of Practice for faculty interested in getting together to talk about strategies and explorations with Generative AI in their teaching practice. Interested in joining the conversation?
Trauma-informed Education: Recognition, Relationship and Resilience
Join us for a 90-minute online workshop grounded in intersectionality, holistic wellness and relational teaching considering various aspects of trauma and resilience as they relate to post-secondary education.
Add a Scholarly Lens to Your Teaching Practice
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is a systematic inquiry into student learning with the goal of improving our teaching practices. Would you like to learn how to add a scholarly lens to your own teaching practice?
Generative AI, Assignments, and your Class
Image Source: https://www.picpedia.org/post-it-note/images/artificial-intelligence.jpg Is ChatGPT completing my students’ assignments for them? For almost a year, this has been a common fear amongst instructors in higher education, worried if these new types of...
eLearn Updates: Strategies for Adapting to Moodle 4.1
On May 1, 2023, Capilano University updated its eLearn instance from Moodle version 3.9 to Moodle 4.1. This was a major upgrade which includes some important layout changes and new features, including improved accessibility standards. The Faculty Introduction to...
Updates to the Student Digital Ambassador Program
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...
Help Students Persist
Which teaching practices are most effective in retaining students? A study from Oakland University offers some ideas.
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