
Christian Blanchette, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Institute for the Advancement
of Teaching in Higher Education
blanchette@iathe.org
And Director of
Teaching and Learning Support Services
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
blanchette@uottawa.ca
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Dr. Christian Blanchette
is the Director of Teaching and Learning Support Service for the University
of Ottawa. He leads a team that is devoted to quality and innovation
in university teaching. The team's work focuses on fully merging campus-based
and distributed learning infrastructure, e-learning development, active
learning integration and transformative professional development into
cohesive, responsive and effective support mechanisms for faculty
members and students.
Over the years, Dr. Blanchette hasinitiated or led more than 12
national initiatives in teaching, learning and e-learning. Recently,
he was the lead investigtor for the University Collaborative Communities
for e-Learning Adoption (an initiative funded by CANARIE that includes
projects like FacDev.ca
and e-kit). Dr. Blanchette is also one of the co-founders of the
Institute for the Advancement of Teaching in Higher Education and
currently sits on its board of directors. |