Upcoming Teaching & Learning Events
Capilano's Open Education Showcase
March 4, 2019
1:00-4:00pm BR 126
Celebrate Open Education Week by learning more about Open Education, practices, pedagogy, and resources at Capilano’s Open Education Showcase. Browse through Open Educational Resources (OERs) and hear about the benefits and challenges of teaching in the open by faculty who have adopted Open texts. Light refreshments will be available. 
1:00pm
What is Open Education?  

An introduction to the principles of Open Education, and how these fit in with teaching and learning practices in the classroom.
1:15pm
Faculty and Student Panel 

This panel will provide an opportunity to hear from colleagues Hammond Tarry and Ki Wight and students about their first-hand experiences working with Open Educational Resources (OER’s). Expect to hear about successes, common challenges, as well as tips for how to incorporate OER’s into your own teaching.
  
 
2:15pm 
Creative Commons Licensing Workshop 

Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian, Sabrina Wong, will guide faculty through the anatomy of Creative Commons licenses, providing recommendation for finding and reusing CC-licensed images, and offering details on how to apply CC licenses to your own work. 
3:15pm
Introduction to Pressbooks Workshop

Learn how to create, adapt, and publish Open Textbooks with Pressbooks. Pressbooks is an open-source WordPress-based platform for publishing content to a variety of digital formats. You can assemble, remix, and reformat open educational resources shared by others, or author your own content.
Reconnect Reflect Recharge
Our first " Reconnect! Reflect! Recharge ! event took place in early November and was so successful that the CTE is hosting a Spring 2020 Reconnect, Reflect, Recharge meet-up on

Thursday, March 12, 2020 from 11:30 - 12:50 at the CTE .

You will have the opportunity to

  • connect/reconnect with colleagues from other disciplines,
  • reflect on your teaching experiences at Capilano, and
  • recharge after midterms.
Light lunch will be provided

This event is open to all faculty and limited to the first 25 people who sign up, so sign up now!

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 your teaching, your discipline, and your students? What does it mean that our campuses are located on the ancestral unceded territories of the Lil’wat, Musqueam, Sechelt (shíshálh), Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations?

Join one or more of our upcoming dialogues and workshops on land and place as it relates to our teaching and learning at CapU: 

Land as Teacher
Bonnie Van Hatten (Morgan) Secwepemc from St’uxwtews First Nation, KAIROS Blanket Exercise Regional Coordinator
March 2, 10 am - noon Lunch provided Register now

Spring into Land & Place-based learning
Dr. Lyn Baldwin, TRU, author of Place-Based Education: An Inter and Multidisciplinary Approach
March 6, 9:00am - 12:00pm Lunch provided Read more & Register

Everything Cedar
Carman McKay, Musqueam/Stó:lō artist
March 11, 1:00 - 2:30 Register now

Experiential Place-based Learning
Dr. Carrie Nolan, Dean of Strategic Initiatives, Coast Mountain College
March 30, 1:-00pm - 4:00pm Register now

Indigenous Perceptions of Landscape
Dr. Rudy Reimer Yumks, Squamish Nation, Associate Professor, SFU
Date TBA
ePortfolios
Let you students know about the 1st Annual ePortfolio Hackathon and Showcase.

ePortfolio Showcase
Deadline for submissions is March 15th. Nominate now!

The Centre for Teaching Excellence is inviting student submissions to our first annual Student ePortfolio Showcase. Encourage your students to share their design and content.
ePortfolio Hackathon

March 18, 2020
1:00 pm-2:00 pm
LB126H (Learning Common)

Your students can electrify their ePortolio in a sprint session. They can get assistance from ePortfolio wizards to add video, image galleries, sound or music clips, and get easy-to-use blocks of code to power up the look of their ePortfolio.  
Presentation of Winners of ePortfolio Showcase

March 18, 2020
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
LB126H (Learning Common)

Finalists will be announced and prizes will be awarded to most innovative design and most reflective content. 

1st $100 | 2nd $75 | 3rd $50
in Capilano University Bookstore

CENTRE FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE | CONNECT, INNOVATE, INSPIRE
The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) fosters excellence, innovation, and collaboration in teaching and learning by supporting faculty and staff through programming, mentoring, professional development opportunities, and research on effective teaching.