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....
Serving Students and Faculty
The Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto currently has about 425 online courses in its database, with about 250 sections (some courses may be offered more than once) offered each semester. The courses are largely within the diploma and...
Mobile-Assisted Language Learning
An exploratory research study at George Brown College in Toronto sought to augment classroom learning by designing mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) solutions which would promote out-of-class listening practices, thus offering added language learning without...
iAnatomie
In the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, the entire curriculum is available online through PowerPoint presentations, problem-based learning cases, and other resources.
As each student has a laptop or tablet, learning can be extended and...
Developing Autonomous Learners
Within the EI (Education Informatics) Lab in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), the professors share a vision of the need to move from a content-centred and teacher-directed design for education to a process-centred...
Online Marking
Historically, The Centre for Extended Learning at the University of Waterloo coordinated the marking of thousands of student assignments annually. Assignments were received at the Centre, sorted and shipped to instructors for marking. Once marked, the Centre would...

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

Serving Students and Faculty

Mobile-Assisted Language Learning

iAnatomie

Developing Autonomous Learners

Online Marking

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