Centre for Digital Innovation in Education
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Digital Innovation in Education Conference 2025
With great excitement, we announce a call for proposals for the Digital Innovation in Education Conference 2025, welcoming in-person and online participation from educators (e.g., professors, teachers, board innovators, librarians, administrators, and keen education students) who wish to share their research, insights, and experiences.
Dates
- Friday, April 04, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EST)
- Evening Speaker: TBA, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- Saturday, April 05, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EST)
Call for presenters due February 16, 2025. Details can be found here:
Center for Digital Innovation in Education (CDIE)
Ontario Tech University's Mitch and Leslie Frazer Faculty of Education's Centre for Digital Innovation in Education (CDIE) is a research centre that aims to bridge the gap between traditional education and real-world experiences, aligning with future-focused teaching, learning, and research practices.
Building on existing successes, CDIE aims to play a vital role in our commitment to 'tech with a conscience': improving lives by incorporating technology-enhanced learning strategies, promoting the ethical development and use of technology for good through intensive research and inquiry.
Vision
Our vision is to advance equitable, responsive, and meaningful technology-enhanced education for learners.
Mission
To enhance collaboration with community partners for the purposes of developing, researching, and implementing educational and technological innovations to:
- Cultivate capacities for critical and creative engagement within societies;
- Foster equitable and experiential learning opportunities;
- Understand and respond to future complexities and novelties of our world.
Objectives
CDIE focuses on educational innovation through the involvement of external community partners—from early childhood to older adults.
The Centre strives to engage partners in activities that result in effective, adaptable and responsive strategies to enhance equitable education, digital wellness, global competencies, diversity of educators and innovation in education.
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