Image ©2025 Niagara Health https://x.com/niagarahealth/status/1915804598515732546/photo/1 Before discussing how my work will be disseminated, it’s important to understand the Building Research Capacity in Community Hospitals (RICH) Canada initiative and how RICH-CPD fits in. RICH Canada is a program led by Dr. Jennifer Tsang and Dr. Alexandra Binnie that aims to increase…
2 CommentsGroup 3 – Lara, Asha, Chris Hello everyone, below you will find our draft facilitation plan. For our topic, we’ve chosen digital literacies and facilitation, which is a heavily contextual topic with variable interpretations and implementations. For our primary resources, we’ve chosen a variety of different perspectives on digital literacies,…
1 CommentIn reviewing the readings for week 1 of LRNT 528 – Facilitating in Digital Learning Environments, I found myself nodding in agreement with many of the assertions. I reflected on previous learning experiences where these principles were implemented well or poorly and how that affected my perception of the learning…
3 CommentsDesigning a new student orientation for Niagara Health’s visiting learners has been a challenging and rewarding experience. The new orientation is being paired with a launch of a new student onboarding platform, NirvSystem, that is being used to standardize our placement and onboarding activities. NirvSystem will provide visiting learners with…
1 CommentDown the rabbit hole The critical academic reflective paper for LRNT 526 has been an incredible journey for me. When our group, the Coasters, first landed on the digital divide as the issue for our group assignment, I had no idea the magnitude of learning that my choice of Coursera…
1 CommentFor our major project for LRNT526 in the RRU MALAT Program, our team initially expressed an interest in our critical reflective topic, the digital divide, and then worked backward to identify our delivery technology and learning event. While we are all familiar with the digital divide, we decided to pursue…
5 CommentsReflecting on my initial post on digital leadership, my perspective has not changed significantly; however, the topics covered in LRNT525 reinforced many concepts I have previously understood or added a more profound appreciation or knowledge, particularly around ethical considerations in learning analytics. During this class, I came across an interesting…
2 CommentsLRNT525 Assignment 2 Authors: Marion Goetze, Chris Henderson, Joan Oladunjoye, Callan Williamson This toolkit guides educators, administrators, and IT support teams through successfully deploying Moodle as a Learning Management System (LMS). It includes step-by-step instructions, training modules, resources, and strategies to overcome common barriers end users may experience during implementation. Users…
Leave a CommentIn Unit 1 of the MALAT course LRNT 525—Leading Change in Digital Learning, we focus on “Leadership today.” For Activity 3, we are asked to reflect on the essential attributes of a leader when working in a digital learning environment, using our experiences and perspectives to synthesize concepts introduced in…
1 CommentAuthors: Marion Goetze, Chris Henderson, Joan Oladunjoye, & Callan Williamson Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all concept. As a team, we recently tackled the task of ranking 20 leadership attributes, intending to find common ground. Instead, a fascinating discussion emerged about how our unique backgrounds, experiences, and work environments shape what we…
2 CommentsFor this assignment, I propose seven design principles aligned with social constructivist pedagogies based on compassion, ethics, and benevolent values. Culture eats strategy for breakfast. While this is an old governance idiom incorrectly attributed to management theorist Peter Drucker, the perspective applies intensely to instructional design, particularly for initiatives involving…
3 CommentsThe importance of understanding the problem Reading about various instructional design (ID) models this week, I encountered many iterative loop-type models, many of which were based on the ADDIE (Analyze Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate) process. This reminded me of other iterative loop-type models I’ve encountered during my career so far,…
Leave a CommentAs has been my experience throughout the MALAT program so far, I had a fantastic opportunity to partner with yet another incredible classmate, in this case, Allie Munro. Allie and I collaborated on Assignment 1 in LRNT-524 to undertake the Empathy and Define stages of a Design Thinking process to…
Leave a CommentIn my everyday life, I strive to be an optimist or, at the very least, a kind realist. And yet, in my MALAT class, it may seem odd that I frequently introduce troubling ethical questions or encourage conversations that dig into sustainability issues, encoded bias, embedded values and perverse incentives.…
2 CommentsAuthors: Weri Gadou & Chris Henderson Education technology is rapidly transforming classrooms and redefining the ways students engage with learning with various tools like augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), interactive whiteboards, and mobile devices, to name a few. This blog post examines the insights of two influential scholars, Richard…
Leave a CommentImage copyright TJ Rak. https://tjrak.work/about For this assignment, I focused on the brilliant and talented Dr. Joy Adowaa Buolamwini. Although Buolamwini’s work does not specifically fall within the education and technology field, it will (hopefully) shape the future of technologies being introduced to our sector. Her research and advocacy are…
Leave a CommentPart One and Part Two – 2002 The Learning Management System Regarding Chapter 9, 2002 The Learning Management System (LMS), I had initially intended to use that topic for part one of this activity. However, upon listening to the accompanying “Between the Chapters” podcast, the guest speakers shared perspectives that…
2 CommentsPhoto by Chris Henderson, Book Cover Image by Bryan Mathers, Visual Thinkery In reading the first third of Martin Wellers 2020 book 25 Years or Ed Tech, I had to remind myself of the limits of information technology in the era that Weller is recounting. At times, the question of…
1 CommentImage by Jon Tyson on Unsplash. When working on activity 5 for unit 1 of LRNT522, I ended up writing more than made sense for a padlet post. Here is the long version of the post including more details about the research project design and a test ChatGPT prompt: It…
Leave a CommentImage from National Archives (ID 956091) In reviewing the requirements for LRNT522 Unit 1 Activity 3, I chose an alternate definition of good to answer the question, “What makes a good research question?”. Instead of equating good with effective or valid, I have chosen to answer the question by framing…
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