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...
by Tae Aoyagi | Oct 23, 2018 | news, stories
Screencasts: What is it, why use it? Screencasts are short narrated video recordings of your computer screen. When thoughtfully planned, edited and aligned with learning objectives, a screencast can be a student-centered and engaging learning experience, and provide a...
by Bettina Boyle | Oct 19, 2018 | news, stories
A CONVERSATION WITH Nadja Neubauer: ON Experiential and Accessible Learning for everyone BY BETTINA BOYLE Experiential Learning with Virtual Reality Nadja comes into my office beaming with energy and excitement! Why? She just taught the first class of the...
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