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ChatGPT & AI: Teacher’s Friend or Foe?
A new form of Artificial Intelligence has entered the space of higher education with the recent launch of ChatGPT. This new tool will write anything you ask it to: Text, code, images and more. This makes it appear to be a disruptive technology and it offers an...
Teaching Portfolios
Who are you as a teacher and where are your learning edges? Join us for the Teaching Portfolio workshop, where we will reflect on and explore our teaching and learning experiences, learn how to demonstrate our effectiveness as teachers and identify our own learning edges.
Welcome New Faculty!
Join us for an in-person New Faculty Orientation on Tuesday, January 3rd from 1 – 3:30pm in BIRCH 126. Can’t make the in-person meeting? Join us online from 6:30-8pm.
Peer Observation of Teaching and Learning Workshops 2023
If you’ve participated in faculty evaluations as a colleague, chair, coordinator or convenor, you may have thought to yourself, “There’s got to be a better way!”—And, you’re right!
Spotlight on Faculty: Jari Osborne
“It was so fascinating. The two classes reacted so differently.” Jari Osborne, MOPA instructor, used an ungrading approach to deepen students’ learning and self-reflection.
Formative Feedback for Teaching Development
Do you find yourself wondering what your students are thinking? Wondering why some struggled with the last assignment? Unsure if last week’s class activity had the impact you were hoping for? It’s time to conduct some formative feedback for teaching development! ...
Creating Video for Online Learning
Have you been experimenting with creating your own video resources? Ready to try some new tricks? The CTE is piloting a program to assist faculty in creating video for their online course sites by providing a kit of simple, relatively low cost equipment to sign out...
Thanks for Dropping By!
As the leaves fall and cooler temperatures approach, it’s a great time to grab a hot beverage and reflect on the term so far. We had a great morning sharing coffee and treats in Fir 402 on October 25th at CTE’s Re-Open House. If you didn't make the Open House, feel...
Three Dos and Don’ts for Starting Teaching and Learning Conversations
Conversations about teaching and learning can happen anywhere, anytime! Sometimes they occur naturally, but sometimes we aren’t sure how to start and need some support . Dos Start with a question - Be curious! Start with an observation or an open-ended question....
Becoming UN-Settled
A workshop series facilitated by Jessica Motherwell MacFarlane focused on pampering tired educators, RE-story-ing the academy, and UN-settling our minds and hearts.
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 unceded sovereign Indigenous Nations of Lil’wat, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm(Musqueam), Shíshálh (Sechelt), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh(Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh).
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