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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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...
Maximizing Student Learning at the Ontario College of Art and Design University
In 2011, the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) assessed the capacities of various learning management systems (LMS) to support the particular needs of their students and their goal of expanding online learning opportunities. The process of, and...
Virtual Learning Environment
In September 2012, Loyalist College launched its Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), hosting all of its simulations for learning in an environment custom built using Unity 3D authoring system. The first steps in this process were outlined in a previous Pocket of...
Making Virtual a Reality
The discussion of virtual reality software at Nipissing University in North Bay began with a consideration of its possibilities for research. Discussions between Tom Church, Instructional Designer in the Centre for Flexible Teaching and Learning, and senior...
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...

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

Developing Crowdmark, an Online Collaborative Marking Platform at the University of Toronto

Maximizing Student Learning at the Ontario College of Art and Design University

Virtual Learning Environment

Making Virtual a Reality

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

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