Explore the diversity of best practices in the development and teaching of online courses and the preparation and integration of learning resources.
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Durham College
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. -
University of Ottawa
The course – Introduction to International Human Rights – is part of the undergraduate Conflict Studies and Human Rights program at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is offered to upper year students, and originally was taught face-to-face, following a standard 80-minute lecture and... Learn more about A Course in Introduction to International Human Rights at the University of Ottawa, Ontario Demonstrates a Successful Shift to Online Learning -
Brock University
Dr. David Hutchison, a professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, developed a second-year course in the Foundations of Project Management, which is available online to students in any program. Dr. Hutchison... Learn more about Project Management at Brock University -
Algonquin College
The initial steps Algonquin College in Ottawa took to become a Digital College are outlined in Digital College – Organizational change for enhanced student learning and engagement in Contact North | Contact Nord’s Pockets of Innovation Series. The Series also highlights Algonquin’s 2013 launch of... Learn more about Moving Ahead with the Digital College -
OntarioLearn
OntarioLearn is a key component of online learning in Ontario. It is a consortium of Ontario’s 24 public colleges who partner to share more than 1,200 online courses and several online programs to make them accessible to students across the province and beyond. In 2015-16, there were over 70,000... Learn more about OntarioLearn: 24 Public Colleges in Ontario Collaborate to Increase Student Access to and Choice of Quality Programs and Courses -
Lakehead University
In 2010, when Dr. Brian Stevenson became President and Vice-Chancellor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and Orillia, one of his key priorities was to create new opportunities for rural, remote, and Aboriginal learners to study and engage with the university. One of the strategies he championed... Learn more about Using Immersive Telepresence Classrooms to Link Students on Two Campuses and throughout the Region at Lakehead University
