Welcome Chris!

Welcome Chris!

The Centre for Teaching Excellence is very pleased to welcome Christina Lennox, Educational Developer – Indigenous Pedagogies, to the team, filling in for Ally Quinney’s parental leave. Christina (they/them/she/her) is a Red River Métis and mixed settler...
Access Friction and Instructor Capacity

Access Friction and Instructor Capacity

Post-secondary institutions are legally required to provide reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities, and instructors play a crucial role in this process. This means designing courses with universal principles in mind: providing captions for videos,...
Thinking about using GenAI?

Thinking about using GenAI?

Are you thinking about using Generative AI in your course design or teaching practice? Deciding if, when and how to use Generative AI in your own practice as an educator is a complex task involving a host of ethical, practical, legal, institutional and pedagogical...
Jo Chrona to keynote at Symposium

Jo Chrona to keynote at Symposium

We are very excited to announce that the keynote for this year’s CapU Teaching and Learning Symposium  will be Indigenous education advocate, Jo Chrona. Jo is an advocate, consultant and author with a focus on the intersections of Indigenous and anti-racist...
Congrats to the Teaching Excellence Award recipients!

Congrats to the Teaching Excellence Award recipients!

It is our great pleasure to announce the recipients of the 2025 Teaching and Learning Excellence Awards at Capilano University. As a teaching-focused university, we could not be prouder of the exceptional response from students to this year’s call for nomination for...
It’s Math Not Magic

It’s Math Not Magic

In the realm of Generative AI, we’ve become accustomed to a particular kind of storytelling. We talk about models that can “reason,” display “intelligence,” and utilize “neural networks.” These descriptions often come paired...