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EducationalInformaticsLabFrançois J. DesjardinsRoland vanOostveen

Who:

François Desjardins

Roland vanOostveen

Bill Muirhead

Janette Hughes

Bill Kapralos

Carolyn McGregor

Michelle Hogan

Mikael Eklund

Julia Green-Johnson

Matthew Kay

What:

EILab part of MILab

Constructivist & social-constructivist researchers from many Faculties

They share an objective to develop initiatives on general concepts such as e-learning, computer-mediated-communication and online education with a particular vision that we need to move from a content centered - teacher driven design to a process centered - learner driven approach.

What:

Research facility for studies in HCHI in online distance learning

Part of an emerging international network of Educational Informatics Labs

Research projects

Development, experimentation, and testing both hardware and software elements to use in online learning

Study of the relationships between:

the affordances and uses of the digital interface,

human reasoning as well as human interactions such as collaborative knowledge building, meaning negotiation, decision making, collaborative problem solving, serious gaming and developing communities of practice.

Research projects

Collaborative Online Learning Environment

PDLE

Development, testing and implementation of Open Source Educational Software

Interactive “Smart” Remote Learning System

Supporting Health Informatics Knowledge Building Through Next Generation Learning Informatics

EILab space

EILab facilities

One of 2 locations of the MI Lab:

EI Lab at Simcoe location

MI Lab on main campus (location TBA)

Linked by optical fibre

Linked by a telepresence suite

EILab facilities

Main lab

videoconferencing5 workstations with recordable capacitypeer-to-peer videconferencing + VOIPceiling and wall mounted cameras and mics

EILab facilities

Observation room

One way mirror video + audio recording and editing

Financing

CFI

SSHRC

CCL

UOIT

Corporate partnerships

Contact Info.

Francois DesjardinsFaculty of EducationUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technologyfrancois.desjardins@uoit.ca

Roland vanOostveenFaculty of EducationUniversity of Ontario Institute of TechnologyRoland.vanoostveen@uoit.ca

On the web @ http://eilab.ca