Investigate best practices in fully online programs, pedagogy, core components, educational effectiveness, and challenges.
Northern College, Queen's University
A Program Advisory Committee at Northern College’s Haileybury School of Mines (NCHSM), on the shore of Lake Timiskaming, wanted to expand the opportunities available to the college’s Mining Engineering Technician (MET) graduates, particularly to pursue a university degree in... Learn more about A Collaboration Between Northern College in Haileybury, Canada and Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada Creates an Online Degree Program in Mining Engineering TechnologyNiagara College
Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute is located in the lush wine region of Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario. When instructors at the Institute expressed the need for a tool to provide more meaningful feedback on student learning in face-to-face lab environments, the... Learn more about Enhancing Instructor Feedback with the Sesame Digital Platform at Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute in Niagara-on-the-Lake, CanadaNorthern College
In an earlier Pockets of Innovation feature on Northern College, the focus was on the online flexibility offered to students in the Mining Engineering Technician Program at Northern College, with campuses in Timmins, Haileybury, Moosonee, and Kirkland Lake. The faculty at Northern, as... Learn more about Online Design and Development Focused on Student Access and Learning at Northern CollegeCambrian College
As described by Joan Campbell, Dean, Schools of Business and Information Technology, Creative Arts and Design, and Hospitality at Cambrian College in Sudbury, “teaching and learning strategies, such as blended learning and flexible delivery, are essential in meeting the needs of our current and... Learn more about Student Choice: Offering Multiple Course Design Options for Better Access and Learning at Cambrian CollegeCanadore College
In 2012, the School of Sports and Recreation at Canadore College, with campuses in North Bay and Parry Sound, was featured in a Pocket of Innovation that described how students were offered three options for taking their classes: In a face-to-face classroom; As live, web-based... Learn more about Expanding Flexible Access in the School of Sports and Recreation at Canadore CollegeUniversity of Toronto
Dr. James Colliander, a Professor at the University of Toronto has been teaching first-year Calculus for 20 years, working with teaching assistants (TAs) for marking. He has also been involved with the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) which organizes the annual Canadian Open Mathematics... Learn more about Developing Crowdmark, an Online Collaborative Marking Platform at the University of Toronto
