Current laboratory

Artificial Intelligence

Disciplinary Vtélab - How AI can help ESL students improve their speaking and writing proficiency - April 1st - From 1 p.m to 2: 30 p.m

The virtual living lab will give us the opportunity to become familiar with the use of AI in second language teaching. We will explore listening and speaking practice with a vocal assistant (Alexa, Siri, Echo, etc.) and writing tasks using a platform called “Virtual WritingTutor”.

Recent laboratories

Virtual Reality - 25 November 2019

Augmented, mixed and virtual reality, an overview on emerging pedagogical practices. (This virtual living lab will be exclusively in French)

(This virtual living lab will be exclusively in French)When:February 20th, from 9 to 11:30 AM

Open Education - 18 September 2015

Educational Resources

This academic year, much of VTE’s work with the Anglophone sector focuses on Open Education. In the spirit of open collaboration and informal exchange, we are assembling likeminded practitioners to allow free-flowing conversations about educational resources, ranging from their usage to their production.

Writing Support Technology - 9 January 2015

Writing Support Lab

For its first online lab in English for 2015, VTE investigates the pedagogical side of writing support technology.

Visual representation of some examples of Mozilla’s Open Badges, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 2.0)

Digital Badges - 23 September 2014

Open Badges in Education

This joint laboratory of Vitrine technologie-éducation (VTÉ), Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment (CAPLA) and Ashoka Canada began October 23 and finished on December 11.