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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Playing to Learn: A disaster simulation game for interdisciplinary learning at Centennial College
As part of a project funded by Health Canada, Centennial College, the Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences, the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, and George Brown College, all in Toronto, came together with other health and emergency service...
Implementing Blended Learning in Language Studies at Mohawk College
Mohawk College in Hamilton is positioning itself as a blended learning institution in order to enhance student learning and reduce face-to-face time in physical classrooms. The priority areas, the three steps in the process, and the faculty training provided...
Blended Learning for Students in Health Sciences and Human Services at Mohawk College
Mohawk College in Hamilton is positioning itself as a blended learning institution with the goals of enhancing student learning and reducing face-to-face time in physical classrooms. The priority areas, the three steps in the process, and the faculty training...
Engaging with Students through Social Media: The University of Toronto Mississauga Library Integrates New Ways of Communicating
Given the importance of social media in the lives of students, the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) Library wanted to explore its possible role on social media and how interaction with students would best be accomplished. The first step was a six-month study...
Peer Assessment and More with peerScholar
The University of Toronto has been asking professors to look at teaching methods that emphasize active learning and transferrable skills. Professor Steve Joordens in the Psychology department at the Scarborough Campus wanted to provide his first-year students...
Supporting Technology Integration – The Instructional Technology Resource Centre at Western University
The Instructional Technology Resources Centre (ITRC), part of Information Technology Services at Western University, plays multiple roles in supporting faculty to integrate technology into their courses, from assisting in the use of technologies, to...
Converting to Hybrid Teaching – Realizing the benefits of blended courses for teaching and learning at Lambton College
Anna Lucy Robinson, a Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at Lambton College in Sarnia, was dedicated to her overheads and reticent around computers for most of her teaching career. But as the overhead projectors deteriorated and the transparencies became...
Adapting Hybrid Models for Better Learning – Professors develop and test new models for teaching and learning at Lambton College
Lambton College in Sarnia introduced a hybrid learning strategic plan three years ago and now offers about 100 courses using this format. The motivation for the change to hybrid learning was multifaceted: offering more access and choices for students who are...
Supporting Institutional Change
Lambton College recently announced its goal of building on its recent achievements in hybrid learning to become a mobile learning college. All programs that adopt the mobile learning model will require students to have a mobile device and will offer two hybrid...
Online Microscopic Anatomy Laboratory Courses – Including Virtual Microscopy Slides – at Western University
Five years ago, as Associate Dean of the Bachelor of Medical Sciences program in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University in London, Kem Rogers explored the potential of web conferencing, using Wimba Classroom. As a response to the growing...

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

Playing to Learn: A disaster simulation game for interdisciplinary learning at Centennial College

Implementing Blended Learning in Language Studies at Mohawk College

Blended Learning for Students in Health Sciences and Human Services at Mohawk College

Engaging with Students through Social Media: The University of Toronto Mississauga Library Integrates New Ways of Communicating

Peer Assessment and More with peerScholar

Supporting Technology Integration – The Instructional Technology Resource Centre at Western University

Converting to Hybrid Teaching – Realizing the benefits of blended courses for teaching and learning at Lambton College

Adapting Hybrid Models for Better Learning – Professors develop and test new models for teaching and learning at Lambton College

Supporting Institutional Change

Online Microscopic Anatomy Laboratory Courses – Including Virtual Microscopy Slides – at Western University

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