Purposeful learning for a meaningful life: The mission – and future – of the SXD Lab 01.05.2019

Photo by eCampusOntario 2019, CC-BY SA By Chris Fernlund Lead, Student Supports, eCampusOntario Purposeful learning for a meaningful life. Does this statement just sound cool? Or does it have actual

Exploring Open Ontario at the OEO Summit 06.12.2018

Photo by Kristopher Kinsinger on Unsplash On Sunday, November 11, 2018, at the second Open Education Ontario (OEO) Summit, thirty-plus pairs of experienced and rising Ontario Open Rangers generously shared their time and

The Catch: Fall 2018 Issue #2 04.12.2018

What’s Happening in Technology-Enabled Learning? Photo by Kelly Sikema on Unsplash. The Cutting/Trailing Edge It’s not every day that you get the opportunity to report on a home-grown, free, open source educational

The Pitch: Issue #2 04.12.2018

An Update On How Learning Is Happening in Ontario Post-Secondary Photo by Sanah Suvarna on Unsplash Feel The Learn While the idea of the ‘Learning Style’ (“Oh I’m a visual learner!”) has, over

The Catch: Fall 2018 Issue #1 24.10.2018

Photo by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash. What’s Happening in Technology-Enabled Learning The Catch is back for another season of goings on in technology enabled learning in Ontario PSE! The last

Welcome to The Pitch 23.10.2018

Welcome to The Pitch The what? Answering that question would require an origin story, so sit back, relax and settle in for a very short tale. Way back less than

The 9 x 9 x 25 Challenge: An Ontario Extend Side Project 02.10.2018

Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash. Ontario Extend is a set of instructional modules that help faculty learn more about using technology to enable learning experiences. It comes with a

Northeast by Southeast: OER Discussions Overcome Geography 02.07.2018

eCampusOntario Program Manager Peggy French attended the Northeast OER Summit in Massachusetts this past May.  While there, she shared Ontario’s initiatives, planned collaborations, celebrated successes, and discussed common hurdles. Peggy

Cambrian Open Days: Colleagues and Conversations 02.07.2018

Cambrian’s Open Day took place on May 31st and featured a variety of talks and workshops from presenters. Conference organizers and OE Fellows Jessica O’Reilly and Laura Killam led the

The Catch: Season Finale Edition 08.06.2018

Photo by Andrey Larin on Unsplash What’s happening in technology-enabled learning this week? This week’s very special episode of The Catch is the season finale edition! It will be hibernating

Gratitude and Gouda: Reflecting on my OE Global Experience 31.05.2018

It’s a bit dumbfounding that just last week I was sitting in a beautiful conference space in Delft, Netherlands, listening to speakers from around the world talk about access, equity,

The Catch: Issue #16 22.05.2018

Photo by Gunilla S-Granfalk on Unsplash. Open Treasure: Making Sense of Open Education The Open Treasure section is here to help you find Open Educational Resources (OER). It’s the easiest section

eCampusOntario OE Fellows on what “Open” means to them 11.05.2018

In advance of their presentation at Laurentian University’s CNIE-RCIE 2018 this month, we asked five of the eCampusOntario OE Fellows to describe what “Open” means to them as educators. Read

The Catch: Issue #15 26.04.2018

Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash. This Fortnight in Technology-enabled Learning… The Cutting/Trailing Edge Way, way back in time, when the values of integrity (like honesty, trust, and respect) were

The Catch: Issue #14 13.04.2018

What’s happening in technology-enabled learning? Photo by Andy Brunner on Unsplash. The Cutting/Trailing Edge Twitter is 12 years old. WordPress is 15. They must be ancient relics from days gone

The Catch: Issue #13 22.03.2018

What’s happening in technology-enabled learning? Things Are Budding Edition Photo by Andrea Reiman on Unsplash. Open Treasure In this issue’s Open Treasure category we present the Open Group of 7

The Catch: Issue #12 23.02.2018

What’s happening in technology-enabled learning this week? Photo by Tevin Trinh on Unsplash. Open Treasures Chance the Rapper. Arcade Fire. The Killers. eCampusOntario. What do all these bands and/or not-for-profit

The Catch: Issue #11 15.02.2018

What’s happening this week in technology-enabled learning? Photo by Dave Hosford shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license. What’s Open? That’s Open. What with The Catch being an open and collaborative

The Catch: Issue #10 08.02.2018

What’s happening in technology enabled learning this week? Photo by Ray Hennessy on Unsplash. Welcome to the 10th issue of The Catch. Take note of where you are right now

The Catch: Issue #9 18.01.2018

What’s happening in technology-enabled learning this week? Photo by Bonnie Kittle on Unsplash. The Cutting/Trailing Edge The jury is still out on who ‘12 Apps of Christmas’-ed better; BC’s Educational

An era of disposable assignments? 16.01.2018

Last year, the SXD Lab hosted a student-led Education Design Sprint that explored the concept of exponential learning. Specifically, the focus of the sprint was on a student concern known

The Catch: Issue #8 11.01.2018

This 7-day period in technology-enabled learning… “Lots of Bears in the far pool (NPS/M. Fitz)” Flickr photo by KatmaiNPS shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license. Network Connectivity  The Catch

The Catch: Issue #7, New Year’s Edition 04.01.2018

What’s happening this week in technology-enabled learning? Ranger Report Intrepid. Sturdy. Stalwart. These are all adjectives that you would not want to use in a mad-lib about the Ontario Open

The Catch: Issue #6, Holiday Edition 14.12.2017

‘Twas The Catch before… Photo by Denise Johnson on Unsplash. Read It and Tweet Our peers and heroes (peeroes?) over to the left of us in B.C. are always doing things that

The Catch: Issue #5, Part 2 01.12.2017

What’s happening in technology-enabled learning? There was just entirely too much great stuff by Ontario post-secondary educators coming out of last week’s Technology-Enabled Seminar and Showcase (TESS) to fit into