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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Critical Care Nursing
In 2007, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care issued a Request for Proposals to hospitals, colleges, and universities for the development of an online program for critical care nursing. After a rigorous competition, Durham College in Oshawa was...
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...
eDome
eDome is a technologically advanced facility at Cambrian College in Sudbury for the electronic delivery of modular education – the initials creating the...
From Access to Graduate Programs
Lakehead University in Thunder Bay serves both the vast area of northwestern Ontario, an area of 550,000 square kilometres with numerous small and remote communities including many Aboriginal communities, as well as Central Ontario through its campus in Orillia....
The iTeach Laptop Learning Program
As one of 15 Faculties of Education in Ontario, the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University in North Bay chose to differentiate their program by integrating educational technology (ET) throughout their teacher preparation programs through their iTeach...
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...
Linking Online and Experiential Learning
Durham College in Oshawa established a partnership with Sault College in Sault Ste Marie to deliver the Industrial Mechanic (Millwright) (IMM) apprenticeship program to northern and remote communities. A hybrid model was developed in which Durham College provides...
Border Simulation
In the Justice Studies program at Loyalist College in Belleville, a customs and immigration track is offered to students who wish to pursue careers in customs-related fields, including positions as Border Services Officers (BSO) with the Canadian Border Services...
Simulations for Learning
Loyalist College in Belleville has been creating simulations for learning since 2006, using Second Life, an online virtual world. A description of one of the projects is included in this series under the title of Border Simulation – Student learning in a virtual...
Blended Learning in Introductory Psychology
The Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University in Hamilton faced a challenge that is shared by many post-secondary institutions – how to provide high-quality learning for the thousands of student enrolled in first-year psychology....

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

Critical Care Nursing

Introducing a New LMS

eDome

From Access to Graduate Programs

The iTeach Laptop Learning Program

Before, During, and After Class

Linking Online and Experiential Learning

Border Simulation

Simulations for Learning

Blended Learning in Introductory Psychology

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