Centre for Teaching Excellence
BlogCelebrating Symposium 2023: Teaching Excellence Award Recipients’ Dialogue
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?
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....
What’s New in eLearn: Database Activity
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...
Proposal Submission Deadline Extended – Teaching and Learning Symposium 2023
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?
Let’s Talk Teaching & Learning
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.
Win a YETI microphone!
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.
ChatGPT & AI: Teacher’s Friend or Foe?
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...
Teaching Portfolios
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.
Spotlight on Faculty: Jari Osborne
“It was so fascinating. The two classes reacted so differently.” Jari Osborne, MOPA instructor, used an ungrading approach to deepen students’ learning and self-reflection.
Formative Feedback for Teaching Development
Do you find yourself wondering what your students are thinking? Wondering why some struggled with the last assignment? Unsure if last week’s class activity had the impact you were hoping for? It’s time to conduct some formative feedback for teaching development! ...
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