Collège Boréal

Synopsis

1. Number of technology-assisted courses: 683 hybrid courses;
2. Number of online courses: 84 distance training courses;
3. Platform: Blackboard; Webex; Cisco TelePresence;
4. Multimedia rooms: 36;
5. Estimated investment: $929,000; access to 140,307 e-books, 6,211 videos and 22,983 periodicals;
6. Human resources: Staff support centre; educational adviser, project management, multi-media designer, linguistic reviser, computer graphics expert, programmer, marketing;
7. Challenges: Extended territory, widely dispersed clientele; contractual faculty supervision;
8. Initiatives: iPads in classrooms; virtual desktop; learning studio pilot project (use of teaching and learning technologies); staff support centre - webinars, workshops, mandatory supervision;
9. Common areas of interest: electronic tablets in classrooms; creation of a Centre of Excellence in flexible learning; expertise in multiple access point delivery including new frontier sites; exploration of student focussed hybrid learning.

Collège Boréal sees the convergence of its interests with those of the other Aménagement Linguistique Policy (PAL) partners in the following areas:

1. Exploration of the use of electronic tablets in classrooms;
2. Targeted cooperation to share technological access and educational experience with remote or hard-to-access sites;
3. Development of electronic resources such as electronic textbooks, course modules or other educational uses of technology for college courses;
4. Exploration of hybrid learning based on an approach centred on students and their needs, which aims at uniting pedagogy and technology and which seeks think-outside-the box solutions.

The detailed fact sheet can be found in Appendix 3 of the accompanying document. This fact sheet is available in French only.

Technology-assisted and Online Courses and Programs Currently Offered