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Teaching and Learning in a Digital Context

2016

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Designing A Fully Online Social Marketing Course For 21st Century Learners, Bridgette Atkins, Milly Ryan-Harshman, E. Vogel, H. Jones Taggart, J. Mclean, C. Myco Jan 2016

Designing A Fully Online Social Marketing Course For 21st Century Learners, Bridgette Atkins, Milly Ryan-Harshman, E. Vogel, H. Jones Taggart, J. Mclean, C. Myco

Teaching and Learning in a Digital Context

This paper focuses on the development of a Social Marketing for Public Health course created for health sciences students at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). The course was intended to help students develop the skills required for planning and delivering social marketing campaigns. The development of this course brought together members of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Teaching and Learning Centre at UOIT with individuals from ChangeMakers, a Canadian social marketing agency. Designing authentic learning experiences, providing students of a range of technical backgrounds opportunities to demonstrate their achievement of the learning outcomes, building in …


Educational Development For Online Teaching, Jordanne Christie Jan 2016

Educational Development For Online Teaching, Jordanne Christie

Teaching and Learning in a Digital Context

This paper discusses a case study that explores the impact on educators’ teaching practices, particularly their assumptions and beliefs about teaching and self-efficacy, as a result of their participation in an educational development programme designed to prepare college educators to develop and teach online and hybrid courses. The data were collected through an online survey of 34 participants, face-to-face interviews with 18 participants and documentary evidence review of 6 participants, and was analysed using Braun and Clarke’s (2006) thematic analysis approach. The findings suggest that the knowledge and experience that college educators acquire when participating in educational development for online …


Developing Critical Reflective Online Communities By Empowering Student Voice, Wendy Barber, Lorayne Robertson Jan 2016

Developing Critical Reflective Online Communities By Empowering Student Voice, Wendy Barber, Lorayne Robertson

Teaching and Learning in a Digital Context

This qualitative study examines the voices and learning experiences of students in online synchronous graduate courses by examining the role that student voice plays in developing authentic online communities. Transformational digital learning regards student voices as central to the process of learning in community, not extraneous to it. Effective online courses must be designed to allow constructivist opportunities for students to contextualize and integrate knowledge as well. With the wide variety and increasing landscape of new and innovative digital means of expressing concepts, placing students at the centre of the process is a digital affordance that holds the potential to …


Online “Maker” Modules To Support Production Pedagogies In Education, Janette Hughes, Lauren Fridman, Laura Morrison Jan 2016

Online “Maker” Modules To Support Production Pedagogies In Education, Janette Hughes, Lauren Fridman, Laura Morrison

Teaching and Learning in a Digital Context

Our research study examines the use of online maker modules (developed by our research team) on the learning process for, and professional development of, graduate M.Ed. and M.A. students in a faculty of education in Ontario, Canada. The research draws on the practice of critical making with both digital and real-world artefacts as a vehicle for collaborative knowledge- sharing and generation, deep learning and meaningful engagement with one’s local and global communities. The students engaged in all five online maker modules as part of a graduate-level course and this paper offers insight into the experiences of two of these students …


Examining Student And Educator Use Of Digital Technology In An Online World, Wendy Barber, Maurice Digiuseppe, Roland Van Oostveen, Todd Blayone, Jaymie Koroluk Jan 2016

Examining Student And Educator Use Of Digital Technology In An Online World, Wendy Barber, Maurice Digiuseppe, Roland Van Oostveen, Todd Blayone, Jaymie Koroluk

Teaching and Learning in a Digital Context

Over the past thirty years, institutions of higher learning across the world have increasingly embraced digital technology for teaching and learning. Many institutions have begun to offer mobile, hybrid, and online courses and programs for enhanced relevance and accessibility. Universities and colleges employ digital technology through learning management systems for maintaining and processing educational information/records, offering blended/hybrid learning using asynchronous online student/instructor interaction and collaboration, and web conferencing software for synchronous and asynchronous virtual classroom functionality. Thus, it is critical for us to gain a better understanding the nature of these technological changes and the factors affecting the online realities …