It has been a busy term in the CTE with a variety of workshops and learning opportunities. As you prepare for the term ahead, we encourage you to take a look at our upcoming workshop schedule and register before January. If there’s a workshop topic you’re interested in that we aren’t currently offering, we encourage you to contact us! We can work with you and your team to create a bespoke learning experience. 

From all of us here at the CTE, we wish you a happy festive season and a restful break with your family and friends.  

CTE’s regular office hours are Monday to Friday 8:30am-4:00pm.

During the holidays, CTE will be closed on 

Dec 26, 27, 28, 30 and Jan 2.

We are open virtually Dec 29. Regular hours resume Jan 3 at 8:30am.

★★★ Happy Holidays!! ★★★

Thank you to the 34 faculty members who participated in Open Classroom Days this fall by visiting classes, opening their classes to colleagues and reflecting on teaching and learning. It has been inspiring to experience, yet again, the supportive collegial environment at Cap, to listen to the dialogues on teaching and learning that have been started and continue to happen as a result of this event. We look forward to continuing to create impact and engagement of even more instructors through Open Classrooms in the future. 

Here are a few nuggets from the best part of Open Classroom Days according to participants: 

• The willingness of instructors to share their lessons learned. 
• Connecting with colleagues and being intentional about my teaching practice. 
• Sharing and collaboration and enhancement of knowledge. 
• Listening to other people's perspectives.
• Being able to see how an instructor delivers the classes and how students were reacting to it. 
• The opportunity to see how this faculty member scaffolds experiential learning with a highly technical subject.  
• Participating in open classes was rewarding.

Bridget McClarty’s open classroom this term was a field trip with her REC 152 class, where colleague and visitor Jeff Anthony got to participate in a shoreline cleanup at the Seymour River Heritage Park and got treated to teachable moments on the salmon life cycle.  



• Moodle 4.0 is coming! At the end of the Spring term 2023, we will be making a big upgrade to the latest version of Moodle. Check out some of the new features. Moodle LMS 4 - Latest Moodle Release - Moodle 4 is here.

• Ready for your end-of-term eLearn wrap up? Book a consultation with Mary or Frank to make sure that your gradebook and final exams are ready.

• Do you have course sites on eLearn that you’re no longer using? Maybe you had a course restored or a development site that you were using to build out a course that you then imported elsewhere? Contact askit@capilanou.ca to have them deleted before we make the leap to Moodle 4.0. We want to make sure that we’re not duplicating data as we move forward to avoid slowing down the site. For any courses that remain, IT asks that you make sure that files that are already backed up are deleted from the course.  

• The Spring 2023 eLearn course shells are now available. Educational Developers and Technology Specialists can help you get a jump start on your course development and set your students up for success - https://cte.capilanou.ca/start/consultations/ 



• The CTE video kit is now booking for January 2023. Take it home for a week and test out some upgrades to your video capture setup and you could win a YETI mic! We also have a new self-paced workshop on eLearn called Creating Video for Online Learning.  For more information, drop by the CTE or email Edtech.  

• Did you know that CapU has a policy of not keeping Teams video recordings and Zoom video recordings for more than 120 days? Starting on Dec 20, 2022 your recordings of 120 days or older will begin to be deleted. If you’d like to keep using them, you can download the video as an .mp4 file and upload it to Kaltura to add to your Media. If you would like assistance in downloading your recordings and uploading them to Kaltura – book a consultation with Mary or Frank 

Take a screen break and check out what we’ve been listening to! 

Rethinking Office Hours, Teaching in Higher Ed, Episode 440

This podcast includes excellent examples of how to be more purposeful and authentically be more welcoming in your office hours.  

Ableism in the Academy: A Student Perspective, STLHE Podcast 

This podcast explores what ableism means and the ways in which it unfolds in the academy including what we learned during the COVID pandemic about accessibility.  

Learning Out Loud with Karen Caldwell, Teaching in Higher Ed, Episode 438.  

Listen to this podcast for inspiration on authentically inspiring curiosity and creating opportunities for active learning with our students.  

Student Perspectives on Open and Inclusive Education, BCcampus Mixtape.

In this episode, students discuss the challenging experiences they have had in formal education and explore ways it could be better. Topics include personalized and experiential learning, disability, mental health, grading, and challenges facing international students.



Brit Paris and Barry Magrill, Educational Developers in the CTE, are conducting a research study to investigate changes to instructional feedback practices in light of lessons learned through emergency remote teaching caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re looking for instructors who have taught continuously between 2019 and now. You’ll be asked some questions about how you provide feedback to students. The interview will take place over Zoom, lasting approximately 1 hour. The research findings will inform programming in the CTE and be presented at conferences and in academic journals. Email Brit for more information and to find out how to participate!   



The CTE is looking for one or more faculty who are interested in coordinating our Liberating Structures community of practice. The group meets monthly and faculty members take turns facilitating and discussing how to implement the practices in their classroom. This is a low commitment fun opportunity to create real teaching and learning impact and connections for faculty. Coaching and support from the CTE will be provided. Please contact Bettina for details. 



Peer Observation of Teaching and Learning Workshop: January 6, 13, 20 from 9 – Noon (Online).  

To register and for more information about this workshop, contract Lori Walker loriwalker@capilanou.ca 

Offerings in the Certificate in University Teaching and Learning

Scholarly Inquiry - (Online) Jan 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14, 28, Mar 7, 21 Time: 1-3:50pm

Teaching Portfolios - (In Person) Jan 12, 17, 19, 24 Time: 1-2:20pm

Assessment and Evaluation for Learning - (In Person) Feb 21, 22, 23 Time: 9am-4pm

Course Re-Design - (In Person) May 15, 16, 17 Time: 9am-4pm

Inclusive Teaching Practices - (In Person) May 18 Time: 9am-1pm (Online) June 1 Time: 9am-11am (In Person) June 12-14, Time: 9 am-3pm 



Instructional Skills Workshop - (In Person) May 24, 25, 26 Time: 8:30am-4:30pm



Brit Paris, educational developer here in the CTE, has been appointed as the new Director, Teaching and Learning starting January 1st, 2023. Congratulations, Brit! 

Have a teaching and learning publication you’d like to share? Want to celebrate a colleague’s accomplishment? Let us know about the amazing work in teaching and learning that you or your colleagues have done! Send us a note to let us know who should be celebrated in upcoming months.