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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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – The First Steps at the University of Toronto
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been big news in post-secondary education for the past year as elite universities form consortia to offer these free courses to huge numbers of students around the world. Among the best-known consortia are EdX, with MIT,...
Online Learning Opportunities for Undergraduate Students at the University of Toronto
The use of technology to enhance learning at the University of Toronto is not new. For the past few years, online courses and programs have been available to graduate students in faculties such as nursing, social work, and education. In addition, technology has been...
Supporting Online Teaching through Online Learning at Western University
The Teaching Support Centre at Western University in London, which provides instruction and support for teaching for both graduate students and professors, has already been integrating instruction and practice on the use of technologies for teaching and learning in...
Social Media and Society
At Durham College in Oshawa, the growing use of social media for online communication and collaboration in industry, business, government, politics, and personal life and student interest in learning how to use social media for learning and in their careers have...
Creating Learning Objects
In 2007, a counsellor in the Accessibility Office at Fanshawe College in London received a grant to study and support the learning styles of students with learning disabilities enrolled in apprenticeship programs. As many of the students learned more...
Matching Pedagogy and Technology
When Collège Boréal, established in 1995, moved to its main campus in Sudbury in 1997, it used videoconferencing to serve students spread across northern Ontario. Some first year courses, for the programs in its northern campuses, were transmitted through...
Providing Access and Flexibility
Nipissing University in North Bay has responded to the need for more nurses in Ontario by creating two innovative learning programs. In one program, Registered Practical Nurses (RPN) can study for their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) online and in clinical...
Offering Choice
At Canadore College, with three campuses in North Bay and one in Parry Sound, students have asked for more access to technology and for more options for learning, including being able to take programs off-campus. To provide this flexibility, online learning has been...
Reaching Out
With a catchment area of over 550,000 square kilometres, the Centre for Continuing Education at Confederation College in Thunder Bay takes advantage of both synchronous and asynchronous delivery to ensure that learning opportunities are accessible and flexible...
Starting with Pedagogy
The introduction of a new learning management system (LMS), Desire2Learn (D2L) at Centennial College in Toronto, coincided with the completion of the e-learning strategy and information technology strategic plan, providing an opportunity for inclusive planning. The...

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – The First Steps at the University of Toronto

Online Learning Opportunities for Undergraduate Students at the University of Toronto

Supporting Online Teaching through Online Learning at Western University

Social Media and Society

Creating Learning Objects

Matching Pedagogy and Technology

Providing Access and Flexibility

Offering Choice

Reaching Out

Starting with Pedagogy

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