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CENTRE FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE
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- N E W S L E T T E R -
April 2020
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Dear Colleagues,
I hope you and your families are doing well and continue to be safe. This semester has been challenging for all of us as we adapted to remote working environments and especially for faculty as you transitioned to remote delivery of courses. Our team has connected with many of you over the past few weeks and we continue to be impressed with the care, compassion, and kindness you have demonstrated. Please reach out to the CTE for help and support for any of your teaching needs.
I want to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the amazing CTE team. We logged over 250 consultations through virtual support in the past 4 weeks and over 300 faculty have joined our Teaching Continuity eLearn site. Well done, CTE!
Laura MacKay
Director Centre for Teaching Excellence
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Teaching Continuity eLearn Site
Our Teaching Continuity eLearn site
continues to be updated with resources to support faculty in adapting courses to remote delivery this summer. In addition to the resources, you will find daily virtual support from the CTE educational developers.
All faculty are registered in the eLearn site, but please let us know if you have any difficulty accessing the site. Click here to access
Teaching Continuity eLearn site
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Online Teaching Fundamentals Microcourse
May 4 - May 8, 2020
10:00 am - 11:30 am
This one-week microcourse will introduce you to the fundamentals of design and delivery of online teaching and learning. The microcourse will be offered in a remote adapted delivery mode.
Each day will begin with a 90-minute webinar (hosted in WebEx) on a different topic of course design and delivery that is followed by self-paced activities that allow you to build on what you have learned.
Topics include how to make adjustments to your course design following best practices for online teaching, how to adapt formative and summative assessments that work online, how to quickly learn to operate online delivery tools such as video conferencing and the new Kaltura video platform, and how to build a community of online learners.
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Monday, May 4
Online Course Organization and Design
Tuesday, May 5
Building a Community of Online Learners
Wednesday, May 6
Tools & Platforms to Support Your Teaching
Thursday, May 7
Assessments & Assignments; Active Learning Tools & Ideas
Friday, May 8
Synchronous Sessions & Office/Happy Hours/Community Circles
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Active Learning Online
Monday, May 25th - Friday, June 5, 2020
2 weeks online
This two-week workshop is developed specifically for CapU faculty interested in complementing or rethinking a course with active and engaging online learning activities. The course emphasizes the value of collaboration with peers online, and models active learning examples in order to facilitate understanding and reflection of the online learner experience. Participants will draw upon existing teaching experience as they experiment with a practical learning activity of their own choice online and gain feedback from peers.
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Kaltura Online Training by WebEx
Kaltura is a video platform for creating and sharing video (e.g, lessons, narrated powerpoint) that you can easily upload to your class in eLearn. In this webinar, you will learn about the best uses for video in your online course and how to record video content, edit and organize your videos, and link them to your eLearn course. No more messy uploading to YouTube channels since Kaltura provides each user with a personal media space. Join the webinar to learn about these and other topics related to video in your online class.
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Getting Started with Kaltura
April 28, 2020 10:00 am - 11:00 am
May 1, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Kaltura is a video creation and archive tool that lets you produce video for consumption by students in your online class. Also, you may choose to publish your video for colleagues at CapU to share. In this webinar, you will learn how to create video in a variety of ways including screen capture (with in-picture optional), or quick desktop capture. You will explore how to edit, share and re-use media in Kaltura. Kaltura replaces the need for YouTube so you can create, edit and publish your class video in the same convenient space easily linkable to eLearn.
Advanced Tools in Kaltura
April 29 11:00 am
Kaltura has a variety of advanced options for video production and sharing. In this webinar, you will explore how to augment media in Kaltura by adding quizzes, chapters, and Powerpoint slides. Video production techniques using Kaltura Capture will be covered in more depth. You will also explore additional ways to attach Kaltura media to your eLearn course.
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Introduction to Decolonizing & Indigenizing Curriculum
May 25 – May 29, 2020
9:00 am – 10:00 am via WebEx
With Shawna Duncan, Cree Nation, CTE Educational Developer, Indigenous Pedagogies
What are the basics to indigenizing curriculum? J
oin us for a five-day microcourse on decolonizing and indigenizing curriculum. Each day starts with a 60-minute webinar from 9:00 -10:00 am.
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Open Education at Capilano
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We continue to expand our Open Education Initiatives at Capilano. The Psychology Department is transitioning to an Open Textbook for the Fall Intro Psych courses. This translates into approximately $88,000 savings to students per year. Read the BCcampus article below.
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Flexible and Online Learning Survey
We are working with Academica on research and a report to guide a comprehensive online learning strategy for the future. In order to develop a strategy that meets the needs of Capilano, we need your input. You will be receiving an email soon from the research and consulting group Academica to participate in a survey about online and flexible learning in the post-secondary environment prior to COVID-19. Thanks in advance for your participation.
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Postponed Events
We have postponed The 2020 Faculty Teaching & Learning Symposium and will re-evaluate in the Fall.
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Please reach out if you need support.
The Centre for Teaching Excellence Team
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CENTRE FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE | CONNECT, INNOVATE, INSPIRE
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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.
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