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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Developing Mobile Learning and a Class+ Experience for Student Engagement Inside and Outside the Classroom at Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario
In 2012, Lambton College announced its goal of building on its recent achievements in hybrid learning to become a mobile learning college. The initial strategies and projects are described in the Pocket of Innovation entitled Supporting Institutional Change....
Developing a Course Using Open Educational Resources at Durham College, Oshawa, Ontario
Halfway through a semester, the website offering key content for a course on HTML, the language designed to represent webpages, went down, leaving professors at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, with the challenge of finding replacement course material....
Designing and Developing Student-Centered, Competency-Based Online Learning at La Cité in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Olivier Chartrand, eLearning Development Manager at La Cité in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, describes his job as an ideal and challenging combination...
Developing Apps to Track Clinical Experiences and Formative Feedback for Medical Students at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
At the Michael G. De Groote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, senior medical students rotate through 63 weeks of core placements during their workplace learning phase. The students, referred to as Clinical Clerks, may be in a...
Developing and Integrating an Open Educational Resource to Equip Students for Better Learning at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
To be successful, students have to know what and how to learn, as well as how to manage course and life demands. Dr. Alison Flynn, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, recognized a need...
Developing Resources for Student Success in Online Linear Algebra at Carleton University
In 2013, Dr. Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada was looking for strategies to improve his face-to-face course in Linear Algebra. The particular challenge of the course was...
Using Blended Learning to Provide Knowledge and Skills for Caregivers of Older Adults at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
Increasingly, adults are taking on the care of older adults in their homes, providing a significant contribution to the health care system in Ontario. However, recent research by The Change Foundation found 75% of caregivers had not received any training specific to...
Blended Learning Program in Leadership in Community Engagement at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
McMaster University is located in Hamilton, a city of 500,000 in southern Ontario, Canada, which has over time experienced significant losses in employment due to declines in its industrial, steel and manufacturing...
Focusing on Instructional Design Support, Applied Learning, and Online Teaching at the Centre for Continuing Education, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
More than 70% of the enrolment at the Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada is in online courses, meeting the needs of working professionals who enrol in certificate and diploma programs for flexible learning...
A Course in Introduction to International Human Rights at the University of Ottawa, Ontario Demonstrates a Successful Shift to Online Learning
The course – Introduction to International Human Rights – is part of the undergraduate Conflict Studies and Human Rights program at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is offered to upper year students, and originally was taught face-to-face, following a...

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

Developing Mobile Learning and a Class+ Experience for Student Engagement Inside and Outside the Classroom at Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario

Developing a Course Using Open Educational Resources at Durham College, Oshawa, Ontario

Designing and Developing Student-Centered, Competency-Based Online Learning at La Cité in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Developing Apps to Track Clinical Experiences and Formative Feedback for Medical Students at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Developing and Integrating an Open Educational Resource to Equip Students for Better Learning at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Developing Resources for Student Success in Online Linear Algebra at Carleton University

Using Blended Learning to Provide Knowledge and Skills for Caregivers of Older Adults at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario

Blended Learning Program in Leadership in Community Engagement at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

Focusing on Instructional Design Support, Applied Learning, and Online Teaching at the Centre for Continuing Education, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

A Course in Introduction to International Human Rights at the University of Ottawa, Ontario Demonstrates a Successful Shift to Online Learning

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