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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Designing Online Courses with Visual Stimulation to Enhance Student Engagement at Durham College

As the School for Interdisciplinary Studies and Employment Services at Durham College in Oshawa implemented the strategy of offering more opportunities for students to take courses online, Professor Michelle Mouton was asked to draw on her background in Art History... Learn more about Designing Online Courses with Visual Stimulation to Enhance Student Engagement at Durham College
Expanding Reality for Learning

As described in a previous Pocket of Innovation, Carleton Virtual is an online virtual environment that resembles the physical Carleton University campus in Ottawa and was built to explore how the unique qualities of virtual environments can best enhance... Learn more about Expanding Reality for Learning
Engaging Students in an Online Course at Durham College on Wrongful Convictions

Professor Joanne Arbour had just completed her degree in Criminology, which involved participating in online courses, when her Dean in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Employment Services at Durham College in Oshawa asked her to develop online criminology... Learn more about Engaging Students in an Online Course at Durham College on Wrongful Convictions
Documenting Learning: Using e-Portfolios in Visual Arts and the Built Environment at the University of Windsor

The Visual Arts and the Built Environment (VABE) Program is both interdisciplinary and inter-university, involving the School for Arts and Creative Innovation at the University of Windsor and the School of Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy. ... Learn more about Documenting Learning: Using e-Portfolios in Visual Arts and the Built Environment at the University of Windsor
Testing New Tools to Support Enhanced Online and Blended Learning at the University of Windsor

The University of Windsor has been expanding its online and blended learning offerings over the past few years, now offering close to 100 online courses with about 10,000 registrations and 50-100 blended courses. The number of online registrations in the Faculty of... Learn more about Testing New Tools to Support Enhanced Online and Blended Learning at the University of Windsor
Combining Traditional, Hybrid, and Online Learning in a Progressive Delivery Model at Durham College

In addition to teaching at Durham College in Oshawa, Michelle Rivers, a Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Employment Services, is enrolled in graduate studies at the Faculty of Education at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (... Learn more about Combining Traditional, Hybrid, and Online Learning in a Progressive Delivery Model at Durham College
Developing Online Courses that Connect to Students’ Lives at Durham College

For each course, students get access to online lectures which are recorded using Tegrity, the McGraw-Hill lecture capture software. This allows the students anywhere, anytime viewing, supplemented by a search capacity that covers the entire course, the capacity to... Learn more about Developing Online Courses that Connect to Students’ Lives at Durham College
Using Twitter in the Classroom for Student Engagement and Exchange at University of Windsor

Professor Ryan Snelgrove teaches Ethics in Sport, a required first-year course, to 225 students in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Windsor. Reflecting the University’s emphasis on student experience, Dr. Snelgrove wanted to foster classroom... Learn more about Using Twitter in the Classroom for Student Engagement and Exchange at University of Windsor
Assessing the Potential of e-Textbooks at the University of Windsor

The Leddy Library at the University of Windsor, under the leadership of Gwendolyn Ebbett, Dean of the Library, and Joan Dalton, Associate Dean of the Library, has an extensive involvement with electronic services, being one of the first institutions to move to... Learn more about Assessing the Potential of e-Textbooks at the University of Windsor
Developing Crowdmark, an Online Collaborative Marking Platform at the University of Toronto

Dr. James Colliander, a Professor at the University of Toronto has been teaching first-year Calculus for 20 years, working with teaching assistants (TAs) for marking. He has also been involved with the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) which organizes the... Learn more about Developing Crowdmark, an Online Collaborative Marking Platform at the University of Toronto

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