Christian Blanchette
Project manager - SAEA
Universite d'Ottawa
(SAEA)
Dr. Blanchette leads a team devoted to quality and innovation in University teaching. With the mandate to develop university strategies and programmes to enrich the learning experience, his team leads initiatives in professional development for faculty members, in creation of learning material (both in paper-based and digital) and support the evolution of learning infrastructures on-campus, off-campus and for distributed-learning.
From 1993 on, he has been involved in University teaching, in the enrichment of teaching and learning with technology, in learnware development and in research around the pedagogy and use of e-learning.
At York University, as Director of Learn Ontario and at the University of Ottawa, he presided and participated in the creation of numerous consortia devoted to learnware design and research on e-learning, among others: Hypertext and Hypermedia, Instructional Design for the New Media, SeniorCentre.ca, In-Genius - Succeeding in University with Learning Disability, On-line Training in the Workplace for Health Professionals, Teletriage : a program in telenursing practice, Evaluating WebCT and it’s potential for enhancing student learning in classroom-based undergraduate education and Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning in Synergy. He also participates in the creation of the online course: «Digital Architecture: Imaginative Pedagogy for Educators», while being one of the leaders of the national resource on University pedagogy, facultydevelopment.ca and the leader of UCCELA (University Collaborative Communities for e-Learning Adoption).
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