Corporate Profile

CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN LEARNING

As the professional development arm of Contact North/Contact Nord for faculty and training personnel, the Centre for Innovation in Learning offers opportunities that enable participants to successfully integrate technology into the teaching and learning process. Technical advances have led to increasing opportunities for technology enhanced learning, e.g., interactive audio and videoconferencing, the use of CD ROM and the Internet. Using these technologies effectively, however, requires more than just the installation of equipment.

1. During many years of operations, we have acquired extensive expertise, experience and resources in this area. The Centre has developed and continues to elaborate five initiatives that meet the need expressed by educators, human resource managers and corporate trainers involved in the design, development and deployment of on-line programs and courses using these advanced technologies.
2. Our Training Program for New Users of learning technology provides educators and trainers with “just-in-time” and “just-enough” training to prepare them for their first experience with a technology-based, distance learning environment. The program includes structured, hands-on sessions plus background materials on learning principles and the pedagogy most applicable to particular learning technologies.
3. The Exemplary Practice Series uses experiences local, national, and international leaders in the field of distance education to share successful learning and training models with a wide range of educators, administrators, and private sector participants. This series helps practitioners to gain skill in facilitating learner success and to explore the pedagogical and institutional changes required for successful applications of technology to education and workforce training.
4. Two first-of-a-kind Learning and Training Technology Labs provide educators and trainers with a unique opportunity to keep updated and to explore and evaluate emerging information technologies. Timely updates to educators and trainers complement on-site briefings, seminars and launches of leading edge technologies.
5. A Help Desk & Resource Bank helps learners stay abreast of the constant changes in technology and the innovative ways it is being applied to enhance learning and training outcomes. We can link participants to peers or mentors interested in similar issues, and we have an array of tangible and virtual resources available dealing with technologies and their classroom applications, from highly specific technical information to broad institutional concerns.
6. Our Research and Needs Assessment Program generates new information on an ongoing basis regarding the current status of distance education, projected needs for training and education, and emerging institutional policies and strategies for incorporating technology enhanced learning. We share this information with decision makers throughout the regional, national and international distance education and training community.

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Contact us at 1-800-561-2222

Northeast Regional Coordinating Centre
410 Falconbridge Road, Unit 1
Sudbury, Ontario P3A 4S4
Phone: 705-560-2710
Fax: 705-525-0136

Northwest Regional Coordinating Centre
1139 Alloy Drive, Suite 104
Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 6M8
Phone: 807-344-1616
Fax: 807-344-2390