Ontario Pockets of Innovation

On college and university campuses across Ontario, faculty and instructors are exploring how emerging technologies and online tools can improve the learning experience for students. In this growing 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 the challenges they encountered and what they learned with other public colleges and universities in Ontario.

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Increasing Student Access and Flexibility to Mathematics using the Möbius Platform at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Steven Furino, Assistant Dean for Online Studies in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo wanted to provide students with access to flexible and engaging courses, resources and opportunities to practice mathematics online.
Motivating First Year Computer Science Students Using Gamification at Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Aaron Langille, master lecturer in the department of Mathematics & Computer Science at Laurentian University, was in a predicament. How do you motivate a class of 200 first-year students in a computer programming course at 8:00 a.m. in the morning with 2/3...
Developing Family Visit Video Simulations to Engage First Year Nursing Students at Cambrian College, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

In the first year of Cambrian College’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program (in collaboration with Laurentian University), students are required to take the core course BSN 1007 Health and Healing I - Family Experience of a Chronic...
Making Professional Education More Accessible for Pharmacists Through Artificial Intelligence-Based Virtual Clinics

Dr. Jeff Nagge, Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo, faced a dilemma. He developed an online continuing education course for pharmacists that required an in-person clinical experience with patients under his...
Designing Learner-Centered Online Programs Focused on Accessibility and Flexibility at Northern College, Ontario

Northern College, with campuses in Timmins, Moosonee, Haileybury and Kirkland Lake, serves an area of over 116,000 square kilometres in Northeastern Ontario. Northern offers 75 full-time, part-time, certificate, diploma, and apprenticeship programs and hundreds of...
Developing Mobile Learning and a Class+ Experience for Student Engagement Inside and Outside the Classroom at Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario

In 2012, Lambton College announced its goal of building on its recent achievements in hybrid learning to become a mobile learning college. The initial strategies and projects are described in the Pocket of Innovation entitled Supporting Institutional Change....
Developing a Course Using Open Educational Resources at Durham College, Oshawa, Ontario

Halfway through a semester, the website offering key content for a course on HTML, the language designed to represent webpages, went down, leaving professors at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, with the challenge of finding replacement course material....
Designing and Developing Student-Centered, Competency-Based Online Learning at La Cité in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Olivier Chartrand, eLearning Development Manager at La Cité in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, describes his job as an ideal and challenging combination...
Developing Apps to Track Clinical Experiences and Formative Feedback for Medical Students at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

At the Michael G. De Groote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, senior medical students rotate through 63 weeks of core placements during their workplace learning phase. The students, referred to as Clinical Clerks, may be in a...
Developing and Integrating an Open Educational Resource to Equip Students for Better Learning at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

To be successful, students have to know what and how to learn, as well as how to manage course and life demands. Dr. Alison Flynn, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, recognized a need...

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