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 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...
Online Design and Development Focused on Student Access and Learning at Northern College
In an earlier Pockets of Innovation feature on Northern College, the focus was on the online flexibility offered to students in the Mining Engineering Technician Program at Northern College, with campuses in Timmins, Haileybury, Moosonee, and Kirkland Lake...
Student Choice: Offering Multiple Course Design Options for Better Access and Learning at Cambrian College
As described by Joan Campbell, Dean, Schools of Business and Information Technology, Creative Arts and Design, and Hospitality at Cambrian College in Sudbury, “teaching and learning strategies, such as blended learning and flexible delivery, are essential in meeting...
Expanding Flexible Access in the School of Sports and Recreation at Canadore College
In 2012, the School of Sports and Recreation at Canadore College, with campuses in North Bay and Parry Sound, was featured in a Pocket of Innovation that described how students were offered three options for taking their classes: In a face-to-face...
Developing Online Learning Opportunities for Apprentices in the Motive Power Department at Canadore College
Scott McLaughlin, Coordinator and Professor in the Motive Power Department at Canadore College in North Bay, describes the impact of an online and blended learning conference he attended in Atlanta a few years ago, as “they caught me”. Instructors from the US were...
Reaching Out to Students at Home: Online Tutoring at Cambrian College
About three years ago, staff in the Learning Centre at Cambrian College in Sudbury wanted to set up an online meeting with an off-campus student. Information Technology staff recommended using Microsoft Lync, a platform for online meetings, videoconferencing,...

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

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

Online Design and Development Focused on Student Access and Learning at Northern College

Student Choice: Offering Multiple Course Design Options for Better Access and Learning at Cambrian College

Expanding Flexible Access in the School of Sports and Recreation at Canadore College

Developing Online Learning Opportunities for Apprentices in the Motive Power Department at Canadore College

Reaching Out to Students at Home: Online Tutoring at Cambrian College

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