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.

Use the keyword feature to find Pockets of Innovation that address your specific interests.

Students Helping Faculty Implement Hybrid Learning at St. Lawrence College
Soon after becoming President and Chief Executive Officer of St. Lawrence College, Glenn Vollebregt had the opportunity to outline new directions for the College through the collaborative development of a Strategic Plan for 2014-2019. Building from the core...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 (...
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...
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...
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...

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

Students Helping Faculty Implement Hybrid Learning at St. Lawrence College

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

Expanding Reality for Learning

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

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

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

Assessing the Potential of e-Textbooks at the University of Windsor

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