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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A Blended Course at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, Teaches Students How to Teach Music

The Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) in Waterloo offers a two-year Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) program. Students attracted to this program include those from faculties of music across Ontario who wish to become certified music...
Integrating ePortfolios at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada

Carleton University in Ottawa is one of a number of institutions whose faculty and staff incorporate ePortfolio technology into programs and courses. This online reflective content management application enables students to create and upload files to document...
The Hybrid Learning Initiative at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, Cornwall and Kingston, Canada, Teaches Faculty the Finer Points of Designing Hybrid Courses

With an increasing number of post-secondary educators teaching both online and face-to-face courses, characteristics of each format inevitably cross over from one to the other.

St. Lawrence College, with campuses...
A Collaboration Between Northern College in Haileybury, Canada and Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada Creates an Online Degree Program in Mining Engineering Technology

A Program Advisory Committee at Northern College’s Haileybury School of Mines (NCHSM), on the shore of Lake Timiskaming, wanted to expand the opportunities available to the college’s Mining Engineering Technician (MET) graduates, particularly to...
Reflective Practice via Creative Learning Portfolios at Sheridan College’s Pilon School of Business in Mississauga, Canada

When they became aware their method of teaching business students was not producing graduates who met the needs of the business community, a collective of faculty led by Associate Dean Jeremy Staples in the ...
A Science Fiction Course Makes Hybrid Learning Anything but Futuristic at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada

The goal of the University of Ottawa’s blended learning initiative is to offer 20 percent of the university’s courses in hybrid format – both online and face-to-face – by the year 2020, a development eventually impacting...
Enhancing Instructor Feedback with the Sesame Digital Platform at Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada

Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute is located in the lush wine region of Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario. When instructors at the Institute expressed the need for a tool to provide more meaningful feedback on student learning in...
How Do-It-Yourself Technology is Enhancing the Learning Experience for Music Students at Humber College in Toronto, Canada

The School of Creative and Performing Arts at Humber College in Toronto offers its music students an array of face-to-face classroom courses, including one with a hybrid segment. Professor Shirantha Beddage, Director of...
Using Immersive Telepresence Classrooms to Link Students on Two Campuses and throughout the Region at Lakehead University

In 2010, when Dr. Brian Stevenson became President and Vice-Chancellor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and Orillia, one of his key priorities was to create new opportunities for rural, remote, and Aboriginal learners to study and engage with the university....
Focusing on Faculty Development for Digital Teaching and Learning at Sheridan College

Sheridan College in Oakville set a goal of developing 400 blended courses by the fall of 2015, using a general definition of ‘blended’ learning as two hours of face-to-face, in-class activity and one hour outside the classroom. By the end of 2014, the target...

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Ontario Pockets of Innovation

A Blended Course at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, Teaches Students How to Teach Music

Integrating ePortfolios at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada

The Hybrid Learning Initiative at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, Cornwall and Kingston, Canada, Teaches Faculty the Finer Points of Designing Hybrid Courses

A Collaboration Between Northern College in Haileybury, Canada and Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada Creates an Online Degree Program in Mining Engineering Technology

Reflective Practice via Creative Learning Portfolios at Sheridan College’s Pilon School of Business in Mississauga, Canada

A Science Fiction Course Makes Hybrid Learning Anything but Futuristic at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada

Enhancing Instructor Feedback with the Sesame Digital Platform at Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada

How Do-It-Yourself Technology is Enhancing the Learning Experience for Music Students at Humber College in Toronto, Canada

Using Immersive Telepresence Classrooms to Link Students on Two Campuses and throughout the Region at Lakehead University

Focusing on Faculty Development for Digital Teaching and Learning at Sheridan College

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