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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Connected Teaching and Learning
In a 2010 presentation, Sidneyeve Matrix, Queen’s National Scholar and Assistant Professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, explored how social and mobile technologies could be applied in post-secondary education to engage students and improve learning outcomes....
Integrating Information Literacy into Course Design and Delivery
The teaching of information literacy through the Engineering and Science Library in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s University in Kingston has been changing over the last few years. Originally an overview of library print and electronic...
Knowledge Building
Working with colleagues, both within and external to the University of Toronto, Dr. Leila Lax, an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Communications at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto, has applied...
Setting the Stage for Student Success
Digital Educations Strategies (DES) is a centralized unit within The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University in Toronto. Annual enrollments at The Chang School exceed 70,000 students, with over 20,000 students in distance courses alone...
Moving Online
In 2010, distance education courses and programs offered through Continuing Education at La Cité in Ottawa were re-designed to be offered online rather than through correspondence so that students would have more flexibility and interaction in their learning....
Student-Generated Course Content
As a teacher making extensive use of technology, James Kinney, a professor of graphic design at George Brown College in Toronto, was finding that maintaining mastery of the software in the field was increasingly difficult. The rapid pace of innovation in the...
Moving to Digital
As one of four universities in northern Ontario, Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie is working to attract students from a small catchment area. A creative and flexible learning environment, with opportunities such as online and hybrid courses, can draw more...
Master of Health Management
Many health care professionals experience difficulties moving into management and need to develop core skills in such areas as staffing, budgeting and information about the broader functioning of the health care system, its policies and governance. However, it is...
Faculty Training
The Strategic Plan for Georgian College in Barrie presents its commitment to advance student access and success through a goal “to expand academic pathways and alternative learning opportunities, including continuing education programming and technology-based...
Interdisciplinary Learning
An interdisciplinary online learning module was developed in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa so that students could actively learn about the importance of professional health care workers working together as a team for better assessment of and...

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

Connected Teaching and Learning

Integrating Information Literacy into Course Design and Delivery

Knowledge Building

Setting the Stage for Student Success

Moving Online

Student-Generated Course Content

Moving to Digital

Master of Health Management

Faculty Training

Interdisciplinary Learning

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