Roland van Oostveen
PhD
Professor
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
Faculty of Education
Contact information
Charles Hall
- Room 355
Downtown Oshawa
61 Charles Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 4X8
905.721.8668 ext. 2657
Roland van Oostveen – E-learning, m-learning, educational informatics
Dr. Roland van Oostveen’s research interests include: online learning curriculum development, problem-based learning (PBL) in online environments, and virtual environment creation. He is the Program Director of Ontario Tech University's Bachelor of Arts in Adult Education and Digital Technology.Bio
Dr. Roland van Oostveen holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning from the University of Toronto. He spent 18 years as a science educator in private and public K-12 formal education settings, concluding as Science Curriculum Coordinator for the Toronto District School Board. Dr. van Oostveen currently serves as Director of the Educational Informatics Laboratory (EILab) at the Faculty of Education, Ontario Tech U, an innovative research facility, which focusses on Human-Computer-Human Interactions (HCHI). Dr. van Oostveen also serves as the Director of the BA in Educational Studies and Digital Technology (ESDT) program in the Faculty of Education at UOIT. The program is oriented around Problem and Inquiry-Based Learning within the context of a Fully Online Learning Community (FOLC) environment.
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Courses taught
Bachelor of Arts, Educational Studies
- EDST 1100U - Problem and Inquiry Based Learning
formerly EDUC 4703U - Teaching and Learning: Problem Based Learning - EDST 4300U / 4301U: Engaged Educator Project (EEP)
formerly AEDT 4300U / 4301U - AEDT 1120U - Foundations of Digital Teaching and Learning Technologies
- AEDT 4200U / 4201U - Thesis I & II
Bachelor of Education
- CURS 4100U / 4101U - Curriculum Studies: I/S Biology
- CURS 4180U / 4181U - Curriculum Studies: I/S General Science
- EDUC 3511U - Learning with ICT (I/S)
- EDUC 3460U - Education Elective: Problem Based Learning
Master of Education
- EDUC 5303G - Technology and the Curriculum
- EDUC 5302G - Curriculum Planning and Implementation
- EDUC 5101G - Digital Tools for Constructing Knowledge
- EDUC 5102G - Educational Technology & Communication
- CSCI 5140G - Ecology of Online Learning
- CSCI 6720G - Advanced Topics in Information Science
Research and expertise
- Educational informatics
- e-Learning and m-Learning
- Online learning curriculum development
- Problem-based learning (PBL) in online environments
- Virtual environment creation
- Blayone, T., Mykhailenko, O., Kokhan, M., Kavtaradze, M., vanOostveen, R., & Barber, W. (2018). Profiling the digital readiness of higher education students for transformative online learning in the post-soviet nations of Georgia and Ukraine. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 15(1), 1-22.
- Blayone, T.J.B., Mykhailenko, O., vanOostveen, R., Grebeshkov, O., Hrebeshkova, O. & Vostryakov, O. (2018). Surveying digital competencies of university students and professors in Ukraine for fully online collaborative learning. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 27:3, 279-296.
- vanOostveen, R., Childs, E., Gerbrandt, J. & Awwadah, K. (2018). Exploring social immediacy/intimacy in fully online learning communities through synchronous tools. In T. Bastiaens, J. Van Braak, M. Brown, L. Cantoni, M. Castro, R. Christensen, G. Davidson-Shivers, K. DePryck, M. Ebner, M. Fominykh, C. Fulford, S. Hatzipanagos, G. Knezek, K. Kreijns, G. Marks, E. Sointu, E. Korsgaard Sorensen, J. Viteli, J. Voogt, P. Weber, E. Weippl & O. Zawacki-Richter (Eds.), Proceedings of EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (pp. 2138-2141). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
- vanOostveen, R., Desjardins, F. & Bullock, S. (2018). Professional Development Learning Environments (PDLEs) embedded in a Collaborative Online Learning Environment (COLE): Moving towards a new conception of online professional learning. Education and Information Technologies, 24(2), 1863-1900.
- Blayone, T., vanOostveen, R., Mykhailenko, O., & Barber, W. (2017). Ready for Digital Learning? A mixed-methods exploration of surveyed technology competencies and authentic performance activity. Education and Information Technologies.
- Blayone, T., Mykhailenko, O., vanOostveen, R., Grebeshkov, O., Hrebeshkova, O., & Vostryakov, O. (2017). Surveying digital competencies of university students and professors in Ukraine for transformative online learning. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 27(3), 279-296
- vanOostveen, R. (2017). Purposeful action research: Reconsidering science and technology teacher professional development. The College Quarterly, 20 (2).
- Blayone, T., vanOostveen, R., Barber, W., DiGiuseppe, M., & Childs, E. (2017). Democratizing digital learning: Theorizing the Fully Online Learning Community model. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 14(1), 13.
- vanOostveen, R., Childs, E., Clarkson, J. and Flynn, K. (2016). Becoming close with others online: Distributed community building in online PBL courses. The College Quarterly, 19(1).
- Kapralos, B., Fisher, S., Clarkson, J. & vanOostveen, R. (2015). A course on serious game design and development using an online problem-based learning approach. Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 12(2), 116-136.
- vanOostveen, R., DiGiuseppe, M., Barber, W., Blayone, T. & Childs, E. (2016). New conceptions for digital technology sandboxes: Developing a Fully Online Learning Communities (FOLC) model. In Proceedings of EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2016 (pp. 672-680). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), June 29, 2016, Vancouver, B.C. (Conference Best Paper Award)