The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) fosters excellence, innovation, and collaboration in teaching and learning through programming, mentoring, educational development opportunities, and research on effective teaching practices for student learning.
Connect, Innovate, Inspire
Our Educational Developers are available for virtual support to assist you in your teaching, to answer questions and to explore any new ideas for innovative and evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning.
Please feel free to drop into our daily virtual support or email cte@capilanou.ca with your questions or to book an appointment.
CTE Virtual Support for your teaching
CTE is available for virtual support to assist you in your teaching, to answer questions and to explore any new ideas for innovative and evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning.
Please visit the CTE website at the link below for more information.
Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Educational Technology
The Centre for Teaching Excellence supports these technologies for teaching and learning:
eLearn
CapU's course learning management system. Learn more about teaching via eLearn on CTE's eLearn Teaching Continuity site.
eLearn
WebEx
Video conferencing for synchronous teaching and office hours. Watch the CTE training video on using WebEx for your teaching or download our CapU WebEx Hosting Guide (pdf).
WebEx
Microsoft Teams
Collaboration and video conferencing for synchronous teaching and office hours. Learn more about using Teams for your teaching in this video or see the Teams Quick Start Guide (pdf).
Microsoft Teams
Kaltura
Video platform (Chrome browser recommended) integrated with eLearn for faculty and students to upload and create video. Access Kaltura through "My Media" in eLearn. Learn more about using Kaltura for your teaching in the CTE Learning Kaltura Video Series.
Kaltura
ePortfolios
Students can select and share content using Wordpress website format, in a collection of their best work and self-reflections of their learning journey.
Additional guides, tools and strategies for faculty support during remote learning are also available on the CTE Teaching Continuity site in eLearn.
ePortfolios
CTE Student Digital Ambassadors
Our ambassadors will support students in navigating the online learning environment. They are available virtually Monday – Saturday, 10 – 8 p.m., via Teams – Drop in now! – or email dsa@capilanou.ca.
Scholarship
The Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies is an interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for students, educators and researchers to engage with exploratory, innovative, and reconceptualist approaches to early childhood education, particularly childhoods, pedagogies and curriculum.
The editors of the journal are CapU faculty Dr. Annabella Cant and Tahmina Shayan (ECCE).