Learning Technology Comparison across Ontario Universities
| Institution | Contact Person | Web Conferencing Software | Clicker Product | Satisfaction | Lecture Capture Software/Hardware | Contact Person | Satisfaction | Podcasting Software | Contact Person | Integration into LMS? (Y/N) | Satisfaction | comments | Number of students at institution| | |||
| University of Windsor | Nick Baker | Blackboard Collaborate | Turning Technologies | Have had some technical glitches for fall 2010, but support has been good | Are in the exploring stages | Darrel Laurendeau | Not sure yet | Home-built system | Srabanti Chitte | No, but links are created that can be embedded into LMS | Not widely used, but available | |||||
| OCAD | Andrew McAllister | Adobe Connect | No institutional system. | We're pleased with Adobe Connect: it's used in Continuing Studies fairly extensively. | Camtasia Relay | Andrew McAllister | See comments to the right. | Techsmith Relay | Camtasia Relay | Yes, home grown LTI | We're happy with Techsmith Relay, but we need a better way of managing the content once it's created, and are looking at options. | 3500 FTE and growing| | ||||
| University of Toronto | Laurie Harrison & Avi Hyman | Blackboard Collaborate | iClicker | Camtasia Relay; Echo360 | ||||||||||||
| Carleton University | Patrick Lyons | Big Blue Button | Polleverywhere.com | pleased. working to integrated into LMS | Transitioning to Kaltura from techsmith (camtasia relay | Elspeth McCulloch | yes | pleased | Kaltura | Yes | too soon to say | 28,000 | ||||
| University of Ottawa | Mark Gareau | unknown | CPS eInstruction RF Gen2 and Gen3 (Pulse) | Extremely pleased-over 1800+ users. The only problem we have had over the years has been this past year when there were ‘bugs’ in the software which created shutdowns, etc. It seems to have cleared up now with the software updates…We are also looking closely at their virtual clicker app that makes sense and is less costly to the student. | We also have Echo360 lecture capture on campus serving 23 installed classrooms as well as personal capture on MDS laptops. We have links to our Blackboard and, although at first it was slow to take off, it is finally being used by profs and other services. | |||||||||||
| Lakehead University | Leslie Malcolm | WebEx (for single academic program) | ||||||||||||||
| Brock University | Matt Clare | Elluminate | Some ResponseWare TurningPoint , some Top Hat Monicle, whatever else publishers can sell instructors.. Some other small web-based projects. | satisfaction | LifeSize | contact | podcasting | satisfaction | comments | 17,000 | ||||||
| Queen's University | Nancy Owen | Blackboard Collaborate | Turning Technologies | |||||||||||||
| Trent University | Ian Thomson | soon to be Blackboard Collaborate | iClicker | Good success but interest seems to be waning in favour of a web-based tool | Panopto Lecture Capture | Ian Thomson | Great software and support, but pricey -- $1000 per install or $50K for our institution | Also Panopto for podcasting plus Voicethread fully integrated to Blackboard | Ian Thomson | Yes, full integrated | 8000 FTE | |||||
| University of Guelph | Adobe Connect | Supporting iClicker | Using them for 3.5 years. ~4,000 in circulation. Faculty appreciate the ease of use. Some dissatisfaction with the five choice limit. Some faculty (4 or 5), are using Top Hat Monocle, an app for laptop, smartphone etc. | No enterprise solution. Individual faculty use Camtasia. | ||||||||||||
| Ontario Tech University | Susan Forbes | unknown | ResponseWare TurningPoint virtual clickers | So far the faculty response has been pretty positive, a way to get students engaged. We have a 500 seat license here at UOIT for the TurningPoint virtual clicker software, which was upped from a 350 seat license last year | ||||||||||||
| University of Waterloo | Paul Kates | Adobe Connect | iClicker | Using for nearly three years now (i.e. it is the clicker supported by our IST). Faculty to the students to the bookstore (which actually sells it and buys back used ones from students) is very happy with it. | ||||||||||||
| Wilfrid Laurier University | Mary Scott | Adobe Connect | iClicker | Yes. | Trying Echo360 again in 2017-18 | no | ||||||||||
| Ryerson University | Restiani Andriati | Adobe Connect | CPS eInstruction and i>clicker2 | Easy-to-use is more important than rich-featured tool. | Customized ePresence (now D2L Capture) | - | Need to assess. | Piece meal - various solution, depending on the (learning) objective. | ||||||||
| University of Western Ontario | Wendy Crocker and Yasmien Mills | unknown | ||||||||||||||
| Laurentian University | Johanne Rioux | Adobe Connect | iClickers | |||||||||||||
| Nipissing University | Kyle Charron | Blackboard Collaborate | ||||||||||||||
| Dominican University College | Francois Demers | unknown | ||||||||||||||
| Canadian Defence Academy, Royal Military College | Mathieu Leblond | unknown | ||||||||||||||
| Algoma University | unknown | |||||||||||||||
| McMaster University | Leila Bastedo | Blackboard Collaborate | ||||||||||||||
| Institution | Contact Person | Clicker Product | Satisfaction | Lecture Capture Software/Hardware | Contact Person | Satisfaction | Podcasting Software | Contact Person | Integration into LMS? (Y/N) | Satisfaction | comments | Number of students at institution |
