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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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...
Nipissing College Partnership Plan
Nipissing University in North Bay received its charter as an independent university in 1992. Its School of Business offers undergraduate degree programs with several specializations. As part of a relatively young university, Nipissing’s School of Business has been...
Teaching in a Virtual World
Professor John Barnett in the Faculty of Education at Western University has been teaching a fully online graduate-level course called Teaching in a Virtual World for the past three years. His focus is making the learning experience more human through the...
Consolidation and Alignment
In 2012, an Academic Computing Strategy was prepared at George Brown College in Toronto, taking an integrated approach to making e-learning part of the core commitment and mission of George Brown by encompassing roles, responsibilities, and implications throughout...
Synchronous, Interactive, and Individual - Online learning opportunities for adults at Confederation College
Confederation College in Thunder Bay serves students spread across a vast territory of over 550,000 square kilometres in Northwestern Ontario. In 2004, only two of Confederation College's nine campuses were offering Literacy and Basic Skills programs, leaving many...
Communication and Engagement – Towards a seamless network linking faculty and students of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) opened in 2005 as a joint initiative of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and Laurentian University in Sudbury. The educational philosophy of NOSM combines distributed learning and community engagement, emphasizing...
Experiential Learning through Simulations in a Second Life Virtual Campus at Georgian College
Based on extensive research and viewing of the work at Loyalist College, Dr. Howard Bloom, Coordinator and Professor in the Child and Youth Worker Program at the Orillia Campus of Georgian College, determined that a virtual world environment could enhance...

Ontario Pockets of Innovation

Supporting Flexibility and Program Completion

Blended Courses for Practical Language Learning at George Brown College

Mining Technician at Northern

MOOCs at Fanshawe

Nipissing College Partnership Plan

Teaching in a Virtual World

Consolidation and Alignment

Synchronous, Interactive, and Individual - Online learning opportunities for adults at Confederation College

Communication and Engagement – Towards a seamless network linking faculty and students of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Experiential Learning through Simulations in a Second Life Virtual Campus at Georgian College

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