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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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...
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...
Learning by Doing
Niagara College in Welland and Niagara-on-the-Lake has increased its emphasis on online and hybrid learning in the past few years in order to promote student success and accessibility, improve the digital competency of students and faculty, increase the choice of...
The Shingwauk Project
Shingwauk Hall, now a central part of the campus of Algoma University in Sault Ste Marie, was established in 1873 as a residential school for First Nations children and operated as such until 1970. In 2008, Algoma University College received its University Charter...
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....
Building a Dog Skeleton
Students in the Veterinary Technician Diploma Program at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville need lab practice involving access to live animals and cadavers. However, this raises ethical issues related to the protection of animal...
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...

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

Serving Students and Faculty

iAnatomie

Developing Autonomous Learners

Online Marking

Learning by Doing

The Shingwauk Project

Blended Learning in Introductory Psychology

Building a Dog Skeleton

Linking Online and Experiential Learning

Border Simulation

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