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.

Use the keyword feature to find Pockets of Innovation that address your specific interests.

eDome

eDome is a technologically advanced facility at Cambrian College in Sudbury for the electronic delivery of modular education – the initials creating the...
Professional Development

The Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS) (National Consortium for Health Training) is an alliance of 11 post-secondary institutions across Canada that offer French-language degree programs and professional development in health-related disciplines. The...
Carleton Virtual

Carleton Virtual (CV) is an online 3D virtual environment that resembles the physical Carleton University campus in Ottawa. CV was built to explore how the unique qualities of virtual environments can best enhance student experience and learning. CV began in the...
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...
VidéoTech

Nandini Sarma at Carleton University in Ottawa and Hélène Knoerr at the University of Ottawa, two instructors in French-as-a-second-language (FSL) programs, had difficulty finding online FSL learning materials that responded to their students’ learning needs....
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...
Introducing a New LMS

The Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) in Toronto wanted to explore various learning management systems (LMS) to assess the options available to support the University’s curricular aims. The goal was to provide students with a rich set of...
Expanding Literacy

Students and instructors alike at McMaster University recognize that students entering university need broad support in developing the critical thinking skills necessary to be successful in their academic careers and, indeed, to be successful throughout their lives...
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...
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...

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

eDome

Professional Development

Carleton Virtual

Online Marking

VidéoTech

Student-Generated Course Content

Introducing a New LMS

Expanding Literacy

Mobile-Assisted Language Learning

Master of Health Management

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