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Connecting Classrooms Across the Border with Technology

Published November 2, 2014 | Multidisciplinary

John E. Fowler Assistant Director, SUNY COIL Center

Knowledge comes from many sources and through a wide range of human experience. In today’s increasingly interconnected world, internationalization and globalization link the local to the global, multiplying the sources of knowledge and making intercultural interactions an increasingly significant aspect of our professional and personal lives. Today’s students not only need to have access to knowledge, but must also be equipped to understand the many contexts and cultural points of view that give meaning to what they know in order to apply their knowledge effectively and sensitively. For that reason, cross-cultural competence has become a key skill in the 21st Century.

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Zotero – A New Paradigm for Citation

Published December 7, 2014 | Multidisciplinary

Denis Côté Teacher, Champlain College - Saint Lawrence
Daniel Perreault Teacher, Champlain College - Saint Lawrence

Five years ago, when Denis saw that Zotero was free and developed by a university, he realized that it was not like a lot of software that comes from a start-up company where you don’t know whether it’s going to be there in two years or whether they have a bare bones free version, and then you have to pay for full service. He also thought that the way that it was designed as a plugin in Firefox was the way to go! It’s really easy. With just one or two clicks, you get your references in. And you have a choice of referencing styles, as well as an integration with Word! He started to use it to collect some of his references in his courses. And then at a Social Sciences Department meeting one day, he talked about it and realized that our students should all begin to use it!

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Call for speakers for the ACPQ’s 2015 Pedagogical Workshops

Published January 8, 2015 | Multidisciplinary

Benoit Bolduc AQPC Symposia Coordinator, AQPC

The Association des collèges privés du Québec will be holding the 38th edition of its Ateliers pédagogiques (Pedagogical workshops) at the Manoir du Lac Delage on May 28th and 29th of 2015. This year’s theme is A thousand and one learning environments for innovation.

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Free and Open Source Software: Much More Than Touch Screens - Useful and Responsible Computing

Published February 24, 2017 | History

Kurt Vignola Teacher,

I’ve been using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for more than 10 years now. In the beginning, the fact that I could use the software for free was what I found interesting. As time went on, I grew to appreciate their user-friendliness and their interoperability. My use of FOSS has now taken on a symbolic value: a refusal of hyper-consumerism, rejecting any restraints on the free flow of ideas caused by copyright laws and opposing the commercialisation of education.

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Dance and the iPad: In Step Together

Published May 25, 2015 | Dancing

Jessika Vigneault Educational Advisor, Cégep de Saint-Laurent
Mélanie Martin Teacher, Cégep de Saint-Laurent
Caroline Cotton Teacher, Cégep de Saint-Laurent

ICTs have always had a certain attractiveness for teaching students how to dance. The Dance program at the Cégep de Saint-Laurent has used technological advances in the past and is continuing the tradition by integrating iPads into the practice of teaching. Marc-André Laflamme, an Editor for the French Side of Profweb interviewed Jessika, Mélanie and Caroline. He gathered and summarized their thoughts into this Real Life Story on the use of mobile tablets in the Dance program.

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The Electronic Tablet in Dance: A Tool at the Service of the Body

Published April 12, 2016 | Dancing

Sophie Lavigne Teacher, Collège Montmorency
Pierre Cohen-Bacrie IT Educational Advisor, Collège Montmorency

In a program such as the pre-university DEC in Dance, where visual elements have so much importance, digital elements – in particular in the form of the electronic tablet – open stimulating perspectives for teaching and learning. This is what stands out from the interview conducted by Pierre Cohen-Bacrie, ICT education advisor, with Sophie Lavigne, dance teacher at Collège Montmorency.

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Using Screencasts and Flipping the Classroom to Increase Student Success

Published February 23, 2016 | English (Second Language)

Patti Holter Teacher, Collège Lionel-Groulx

Have your students ever grumbled when you change the slides in one of your presentations too quickly? Do they start to panic when you erase crucial material from the board in your classroom? Perhaps they are at the end of their rope because they don’t have enough time to take notes the way that they would like. Screencasting may be just what the doctor ordered!

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EDUQ.info: Your Open Archive of the College Network

Published May 24, 2016 | Multidisciplinary

Isabelle Laplante Professional librarian, Centre de documentation collégiale (CDC)
Andrée Dagenais Professional librarian, Centre de documentation collégiale (CDC)
Chantal Lalonde Professional librarian, Centre de documentation collégiale (CDC)

The Centre de documentation collégiale (CDC) is proud to present EDUQ.info, your open archive of the college network!

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Serious Games in College Education and Research – What’s Out There?

Published September 29, 2017 | Multidisciplinary

Chantal Desrosiers Techno-pedagogical Advisor, MEES

In the fall of 2016, I attended the CIRTA Colloquium (Communauté pour l’innovation et la recherche sur les technologies dans l’enseignement/apprentissage) at Université Laval. One of the streams was devoted to digital game-based learning, in collaboration with the Serious Games Society. Here, I propose to address this topic in terms of possible benefits for the learner, while retracing a set of games available to colleagues across the college network

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ICT Profile and Digital Badge Experiments

Published March 23, 2017 | Multidisciplinary

Nicole Perreault REPTIC Community Leader, Fédération des cégeps

The ICT Profile for College Students generated many projects, including two digital badge experiments, which attest mastery of digital skills. The fist took place in a situation of recognition of acquired competencies (RAC) in college; the other in regular day training. The system will be available to all colleges, in the DECclic/Moodle environment: colleges will award ICT Profile Badges to their students. They will also benefit from an institutional space within which they can award their own badges.

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Real Life Stories

Published August 24, 2014

Meeting Students Where They’re At!

Becki George Teacher, Northland College
Kelly La Venture Teacher, Bemidji State University

Kelly La Venture and Becki George of Northland College Wisconsin presented a workshop on hybrid instruction at the recent Canadian International Conference on Education (CICE) at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia from June 16-19, 2014. After their workshop, in conversation with Profweb’s Norm Spatz, they elaborated on their motivation for creating and teaching hybrid classes. Kelly’s and Becki’s remarks are testimonials that providing flexible learning approaches builds contentment among students – helping Quebec college students master ICT profile skills.

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Articles

Published January 18, 2018

3 Platforms to Create Video-Based Tasks that Actively Engage Students

Andy Van Drom Editor, Profweb

In 2018, cell phones, tablets and computers combined with free applications or software give us the ability to create high quality video and broadcast it within moments. The internet gives us access to vast free video resources. Yet in spite of these technological innovations, students still consume digital media mostly passively in classroom settings. Three free online platforms allow you to create different types of video-based tasks that engage your students more actively.

Multidisciplinary

Featured Reports

Published September 3, 2018

Active Learning

Jean Desjardins Educational Advisor, Cégep du Vieux Montréal
Isabelle Senécal Director of Teaching, of Pedagogical Innovation and of International Development, Collège Sainte-Anne

The active learning methods have in common of placing the students in the middle of the learning process. Their teachers can then also think about giving them a role in the planning of the evaluation. Active learning is inspired by real-life contexts that are meaningful for the students, which can increase their level of motivation for the tasks that are suggested to them. It encourages durable learnings rather than using only their short-term memory.

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