Research Projects Portfolio
Education Commons-Enabled Research Solutions
A Showcase of ongoing and newly funded research as of 2010-2011, enabled by the Education Commons' support of projects and spaces.
Watch our Presentation on EC projects and spaces. Click on More > Full Screen and then More > Autoplay to view.
Live sites: Research Supporting Practice in Education | Volunteers Count | Confluence
Piloting or in development: myOISE | Language as Resource |
Urban School Performances
Research Infrastructure: Mobilizing Educational Knowledge Conference Room |
Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab
Education Commons Server Room
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Live Sites
Research Supporting Practice in Education
Ben Levin
Canada Research Chair in Leadership and Educational Change
RSPE is a program of research and related activities aimed at learning more about building strong linkages between research, policy and practice, efforts that together form the the practice of Knowledge Mobilization (KM).
Status: Live
Volunteers Count
Jack Quarter
Co-Director, Social Economy Centre
VolunteersCount is a program that helps an organization track its volunteer contributions and estimate their value. It then generates reports that can be used internally by the organization to understand aspects of volunteer management, or externally to report to funders, donors and members, as the organization sees fit.
Status: Live
Confluence
Jim Slotta
Canada Research Chair in Education and Technology
An enterprise wiki designed to make it easy for you and your team to share information with each other, and with the world.
Infrastructure provided by the Education Commons (see EC Server Room).
Status: Live
Piloting or In Development
myOISE
Charles Chen
Canada Research Chair in Life Career Development
A single starting point for e-services available to the OISE Community (faculty, staff and students).
UTORid sign-on provides access to a range of EC web services and tools, research tools, academic and administrative services, such as Faculty Profiles, Connect 2 Create (C2C), OISEcms, Event calendars, Homespace, T-Space and Research Projects.
Status: Currently piloting in CTL
Language as Resource
Jim Cummins
Canada Research Chair in Language Learning and Literacy Development in Multilingual Contexts
A portal for print and video resources, project descriptions, and relevant links related to mobilizing multilingual students’ language skills and talents as personal and cognitive tools. The site will integrate resources from several existing sites, such as ESL Infusion, within a single design. A content management system has been developed by the Education Commons that enables team members to maintain and update this dynamic website as necessary.
Status: Currently in development
Urban School Performances
Kathleen Gallagher
Canada Research Chair in Theatre, Youth and Research in Urban Schools
Urban School Performances is an international research project that examines how the relationships among culture, identity, multicultural/equity policies, and student engagement have an impact on the lives of youth in schools and communities traditionally labeled ‘disadvantaged’ in the cities of Toronto, (Canada), Kaoshiung (Taiwan), Lucknow (India), and New York City (USA).
Status: Currently in development