Cross Canada Pockets of Innovation

The Cross Canada Pockets of Innovation showcases a broad range of examples of best practices in online learning from faculty and instructors in post-secondary education from across Canada, outside of Ontario. These descriptions highlight models and resources that can be adapted in many educational settings to improve student success in online, blended and technology-enhanced learning.

In this series, Contact North | Contact Nord features projects with three specific characteristics:

They represent a new approach.
They support students.
The developers are prepared to share their innovation, the challenges they encountered and what they learned with public colleges and universities in Ontario, as well as colleagues around the world.

This Cross Canada series complements Contact North | Contact Nord’s Pockets of Innovation Series with 135 examples of how innovative educators in Ontario’s public colleges and universities are using online learning to provide engaging learning experiences for students, as well as the International Pockets of Innovation series, which features stories from academic innovators from Ireland, Norway, France, Iceland, Spain, Italy, US, Israel, Costa Rica, Scotland, England, Sweden and Germany, with more added each month.

Using an Online Mobile Gaming App for Soil Identification in Undergraduate Courses at the University of British Columbia, British Columbia

University of British Columbia

Dr. Maja Krzic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Biology/Forest and Conservation Science at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver. She and colleagues from the university’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) have developed self-study quests, based on a... Learn more about Using an Online Mobile Gaming App for Soil Identification in Undergraduate Courses at the University of British Columbia, British Columbia
L’enseignement Comodal: Dual Mode Teaching in Business Administration at Laval University, Québec

Laval University

Frédéric Audet teaches two large first year courses in the Faculty of Sciences and Business (Sciences et Administration: FSA) at Laval University, a large public francophone university in Québec City.
Praxis: An Online Simulation Training Environment for Scenario-Based Real-Time Decision-Making at the Justice Institute of British Columbia, British Columbia

Justice Institute of British Columbia

The Justice Institute of British Columbia was founded in 1978 as a public post-secondary institution with a provincial mission ‘to develop dynamic justice and public safety professionals through its exceptional applied education, training and research.’
Developing Skills of Argumentation in Undergraduate Science Students Through the Use of an Online Dialectical Map at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

Simon Fraser University

Professor Joan Sharp, in the Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University(SFU) in Burnaby, British Columbia, teaches courses in which one of the aims is to develop a better understanding of some of the controversies in biological sciences.
Peer Evaluation as a Learning and Assessment Strategy at the School of Business at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

Simon Fraser University

The GDBA is based on a collaborative learning model. Balanced teams are constituted at the beginning of each course and these teams remain together for that course.

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Cross Canada Pockets of Innovation

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Laval University

Justice Institute of British Columbia

Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

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