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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Expanding the Online Course Inventory at the University of Ottawa

At the University of Ottawa, the Vice-President, Academic provided special funding for the development of online courses in order to address the issue of introductory level classes with very high registration numbers, especially mandatory courses. The online courses...
Online Resources for Science and Health

The Centre for e-Learning at the University of Ottawa works with professors and departments within the university on the creation, enhancement, and revision of online tools and resources for learning, not only for classes and courses offered at the university, but...
Graduate Degrees through Synchronous Online Learning at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology

When Francois Desjardins, a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Oshawa, suggested using synchronous online technology to offer graduate-level degree programs 6 years ago, many professors in the Faculty...
Online Interaction to Enhance the Learning of First-Year Chemistry Students at Carleton University

At the beginning of his teaching in the Chemistry Department at Carleton University in Ottawa in 1991, Professor Robert Burk recognized the possibilities of technology as his lectures in the Science for Today course were broadcasted to reach beyond the walls of the...
e-Textbooks at Algonquin College

The initial steps Algonquin College in Ottawa took to become a Digital College are outlined in Digital College – Organizational change for enhanced student learning and engagement in Contact North | Contact Nord’s Pockets of Innovation Series. Among the...
Commitment to Students and Excellence

First-year students are often expected to have skills and abilities for learning and self-management that they have not yet had the opportunity to develop. To encourage the development of these capacities, as well as abilities with the learning management system...
Supporting Flexibility and Program Completion

Over the past two years, Trent University in Peterborough re-designed its approach to online learning. The shift from a small centralized service was signalled in Radical Recovery: An Academic Plan for Trent University (2012-2015), which...
Blended Courses for Practical Language Learning at George Brown College

The policy and experiences of expanding online learning at George Brown College in Toronto have been the subject of Pockets of Innovation stories on the strategic plan for online learning and the implementation of the consolidation and alignment ...
Mining Technician at Northern

Mining Engineering has been taught in Haileybury since 1912 – first at the Ontario Provincial Mining Institute and now through the Haileybury School of Mines at Northern College. Mining has always been an industry subject to boom and bust cycles and enrolments in...
MOOCs at Fanshawe

Senior management at Fanshawe College in London wanted to explore the potential of MOOCs as a way of reaching more students and of extending their outreach and profile. Applied sustainability was chosen as the MOOC topic, reflecting Fanshawe’s commitment to...

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Ontario Pockets of Innovation

Expanding the Online Course Inventory at the University of Ottawa

Online Resources for Science and Health

Graduate Degrees through Synchronous Online Learning at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Online Interaction to Enhance the Learning of First-Year Chemistry Students at Carleton University

e-Textbooks at Algonquin College

Commitment to Students and Excellence

Supporting Flexibility and Program Completion

Blended Courses for Practical Language Learning at George Brown College

Mining Technician at Northern

MOOCs at Fanshawe

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