UOIT and Trent University campuses connect with innovative graduate program delivery

New technology has potential to drastically change graduate education in Canada

OSHAWA, Ont. - Media are invited to simultaneously join University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and Trent University faculty and graduate students next week at both the Oshawa and Peterborough campuses to view a unique classroom experience that uses highly specialized technology with the potential to change the face of graduate program delivery in Canada. The technology brings students into the same virtual classroom for lectures in courses that are part of the UOIT-Trent Master of Science program in Materials Science.

The post-secondary partners are pioneering multi-institutional graduate program delivery through the use of AccessGrid, groundbreaking technology that enables universities to eliminate geographical barriers and increase opportunities for institutions to work together in Ontario and across the country for research collaborations and specialized graduate course delivery.

AccessGrid is a group-to-group interaction enhancement to the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET), of which UOIT and Trent are two of 16 Ontario academic partners.

Who:
UOIT and Trent University students;
Dr. Brad Easton, assistant professor, Faculty of Science, UOIT;
Al Slavin, professor, Department of Physics, Trent University;
Dr. William Smith, dean, UOIT Faculty of Science; and
Andrew Vreugdenhil, director, UOIT-Trent Materials Science program and associate professor, Trent University.

When:
Wednesday, December 12
2:15 to 2:30 p.m. media are invited to attend the last portion of lecture
2:30 to 3 p.m. media question-and-answer period

Where:
UOIT
Science building, Room 4080
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, Ontario

Parking:
Enter off of Simcoe Street or Conlin Road and proceed to the Founders 1 parking lot.

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Media contact
Melissa Levy
Communications and Marketing
Ontario Tech University
905.721.8668 ext. 2513
905.213.2735
melissa.levy@uoit.ca