Centre for Teaching Excellence
BlogUse Welcome Messages to Set the Tone for Your Course
The first two weeks of your online course offer a unique opportunity to create a learning space that feels welcoming and coherent for students. Sending out a warm and informative welcoming message can set the tone for the course. The Announcements activity in eLearn...
Three Key Ideas to Get You and Your Students Off to a Strong Start
It’s week one of your online course and you are determined to create a welcoming learning environment that encourages students to thrive and achieve their learning goals. I sounds doable, but where do you start? Here are three key ideas to get you and your students...
CTE Spring Book Club: What would you like to read?
Please help us pick a book for CTE Spring Book Club by submitting your choice from the form below. Blum, S. D. (ed). (2020). Ungrading: Why rating students undermine learning Watch the book trailer here Brown, B....
Library Corner: Curated Suggestions from the CapU Library
Find some time to curl up with a casual read over the break, with these recent additions to the library collection: There There - Tommy Orange Reproduction - Ian Williams Vancouver After Dark - Aaron Chapman Antiracist Baby - Ibram X. Kendi Bluebeard's First Wife - Ha...
Helping Students Succeed without Breaking the Bank
Peter Sinclair
eLearn Xtreme Makeover
Are you interested in updating your eLearn course to enhance the navigation and user experience for you and your students? I recently had the opportunity to work with Rick Davies from the Tourism department - while assisting him preparing his courses for the Spring...
Open Education @ Cap U
In 2015, I got my first introduction to the world of Open while taking a course taught by a member of the Public Knowledge Project. Even though I had paid for my fair share of expensive textbooks and course packs over the years, I’d never realised the very real...
What’s new in Zoom and MS Teams
Want your students to move between break-out rooms? The host can now create breakout rooms with the option for participants to self-select which breakout room they would like to join. If enabled, participants can move freely between breakout rooms, without needing...
Reimagining the Three-hour Synchronous Online Class: Welcome to Kym Stewart’s Three-Hour Circuit
Kym’s innovative approach to teaching her course includes having four groups composed of 7-9 students participate in four alternating class components, which are each 25 minutes in length. Students all join the beginning of the class and all come back together at the...
Land and Place-based Learning: A Dialogue and Workshop Series
Land & Place-based Learning: A Dialogue and Workshop Series Why learn about land and place? What does the land teach us? How might this be relevant to you, your discipline and your students? What does it mean that our campuses are located on the ancestral unceded...
Capilano University is named after Chief Joe Capilano, an important leader of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) Nation of the Coast Salish people. We respectfully acknowledge that our campuses are located on the territories of the Lil’wat, Musqueam, Sechelt (shíshálh), Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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