by Laura MacKay | Aug 27, 2019 | news, stories
I am an instructional designer and e-learning developer with teaching experience. I would describe myself as widely curious about a range of topics from art production to ways that improve online learning, to environmental causes. The meandering path that has been my...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 15, 2019 | news, stories
Games, Chocolate and Collaboration: A Conversation with Jane Raycraft about collegiality and making learning enjoyable As a teacher, do you ever see students fearfully entering your classroom with pre-conceived notions of distress surrounding your discipline? Have you...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 15, 2019 | events, news, stories
A Conversation with Andrea Actis on Risk, Vulnerability & Affect in Teaching & Learning Risk and Sharing Strange Memoirs This semester, Andrea Actis took a risk. She went into her 300-level English class and shared some deeply personal pieces of writing, or in...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 14, 2019 | events, news, stories, workshops
Bloom and Knowledge as Foundational Do you ever feel that the interpretation of Bloom’s taxonomy in the form of a pyramid favours higher order thinking skills like critical thinking or creation of new knowledge over helping students learn and remember facts and...
by Bettina Boyle | Jan 9, 2019 | stories
It’s early December, it’s exam period and the air on campus is intense with last minute studying and test anxiety. Except perhaps for one classroom in Cedar… I enter the room to find 32 early childhood education students chatting and laughing in groups of four as they...
by Laura MacKay | Nov 22, 2018 | news, stories
Blake Rowsell Outdoor Recreation Program Convenor and Instructor Schools of Tourism Management & Outdoor Recreation Why OER? The number one complaint that I hear from students is the high cost of text books. I’ve been using OERs for three years at Cap and...
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