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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. 

 

 

 

  • Before, During, and After Class

    Innovation in online learning is taking place across Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough as professors initiate courses that are enhanced by, and offered entirely, through digital media.  As the College works to develop a broader digital 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...

  • Engaging First-Year Students

    In the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s University in Kingston, there are 2,600 first-year students. Popular courses like Psychology might have 1,600 student places and still not meet the demand. Classes have 450-700 students each. Professors, particularly in...

  • 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....

  • eLearn@Mohawk

    By 2013, Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology in Hamilton has a goal of positioning itself as a blended learning institution.  The move to blended learning has two key goals – to enhance student learning and to reduce face-to-face time in physical...

  • 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...

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