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Canadian EdTech Leadership Summit 2012

Connecting to Success in Today’s Classroom

MindShare Learning ⇒, in partnership with the Institute for Research on Learning Technologies, hosted a one day summit on November 7, 2012 from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm. The summit focused on current hot topics in the K-12 and post-secondary education technology space.

Sponsors included Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning, Canadians for 21st Century Learning and Innovation, Canadian Education Association, Dell, Discovery Education Canada. Featured speakers included the following:

  • Jay Collier, Executive Director, The Compass
  • Keith Krueger, CEO, CoSN
  • Dean Shareski, DEN Global Community Manager, Discovery Education Canada


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IRLT Speaker Series

On Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 from 12:30 - 2:00 PM in TEL building, Room 1009. Dr. Tony Bates gave a talk on Designing University Teaching for the 21st Century. Tony examined to what extent our teaching needs to change in response to the impact of technology in the University today. Are there universal truths about university teaching that don’t change, despite the technology? When should we teach at a distance, and when and how should we combine online learning with face-to-face teaching?

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2013 HASTAC Conference

IRLT will be a co-sponsor of the 2013 HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) Conference which will be held at York University, April 25-28, 2013. See http://hastac.org/blogs/fionab/2012/10/03/cfp-hastac-conference-2013.

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