Generative AI Community of Practice

Generative AI Community of Practice

The CTE has been running a Community of Practice this Fall for faculty interested in getting together to talk about strategies and explorations with Generative AI in their teaching practice. It meets every Thursday online from 10 – 11am. We also share resources...
Add a Scholarly Lens to Your Teaching Practice

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. Do you have a question that you’d like to explore? Do you want to learn how to add a scholarly lens to your own teaching...
Generative AI, Assignments, and your Class

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

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

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...
First Day of Class: Do I Belong Here? 

First Day of Class: Do I Belong Here? 

Image by Rose Jaffe Colorado State University, made in collaboration with high school youth, Fort Collins, CO (source)    “The confidence that comes from belonging helps you try new things that may be hard or scary on their own and nearly impossible without it.”...