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Introducing the Open Learning Team: Mark Lubrick
Over the next few weeks, I will be posting here and in the The Office of Open Learning blog about what the great team that we have! I am so very fortunate that I have the opportunity to work with such a great team. Mark Lubrick Many teaching award recipients tend to be rather self-effacing…
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Lightboard: A brilliant design
At UWindsor, we have a new lightboard–a dry-erase board made of glass on which an instructor can draw or write while facing a video camera–that we can use to develop engaging online and blended learning resources. The lightboard has been around for a 3 years now, ever since Michael Peshkin, an engineering professor at Northwestern, developed…
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Perseverance
This post has been sitting in my drafts folder since October, so I figured it was high time to post it as we near the end of 2015. It has been 9 months since I last blogged, which is the longest I have ever gone without blogging in the decade that I have been blogging. I persevere…
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Top 10 reasons you should come to Windsor
Having lived in Paris, Copenhagen, Toronto, and Vancouver, I can honestly vouch for Windsor, Ontario, Canada as a great place to live and work. You can read why Huffington post thinks Windsor is the place for creative folks and artists here but below are some more reasons why I think you should move to Windsor and…
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Flow
Recently, while conducting a literature search for yet another grant application, I came across the Wikipedia entry on flow. I have long been fascinated by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s psychological concept of flow, which describes a mental state in which one is completely immersed or focused in performing an activity. According to the entry, flow has applications in education,…
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Open Learning at UWindsor – Part 2
We’ve been busy in the Office of Open Learning! In early October, the Ministry for Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) announced a call for applications to the Ontario’s Shared Online Course Fund 2014-2015, which will provide institutions for up to $75,000 per course or module to: design and develop new online courses; redevelop existing online…
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Open Learning at UWindsor – Part 1
The first couple of months in my new role as the Online Learning Specialist in the Office of Open Learning at the University of Windsor has been quite a blast! My new office is the CoLlab (Collaborative Open Learning Laboratory) located in Erie Hall, Room 1110. It’s reminiscent of the lab that I worked in…
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Office of Open Learning…here I come!
Back in January, I blogged about constructing my identity as a researcher. At the time, I was transitioning into my role as the Distance Education Course Development Coordinator at the Odette School of Business after having worked as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education. Now I am making yet another transition to serve in The Office…