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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 [email protected]
Roland vanOostveenFaculty of EducationUniversity of Ontario Institute of [email protected]
On the web @ http://eilab.ca