Lesley Wilton, PhD, OCT, is a faculty consultant for the Teaching and Learning Online project and a senior researcher for the PeppeR project (OISE). She has been designing and teaching courses at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, since 2012. At OISE, she currently teaches in several graduate programs via face-to-face, blended and fully online formats. She has also been teaching at the Faculty of Education, Ontario Tech University, since 2015. Dr. Wilton received her PhD in Education from OISE. Studying new literacies and social practices in online learning, she built on her MEd research in digital literacies (York University). She presented some of her dissertation data at AERA, LRA and CSSE, and authored Quiet Participation: Investigating non-posting activities in online learning (2019), available in Online Learning Journal. She is also an occasional teacher with the Peel District School Board. Dr. Wilton is the Committee Chair of the Biggar Hedges MT Awards (oise.utoronto.ca/mtawards). She writes about and presents on issues related to online learning, teaching with technology, TPACK, pre-service teaching, multiliteracies, artificial intelligence in education, social practices in online learning and new literacies. Dr. Wilton can be followed on Twitter @lesleywilton
Clare Brett is Chair of the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/UT and Associate Professor in the area of Education and Knowledge Technologies. She has been involved in research in the design of blended and online learning environments in classrooms for the last 20 + years, and has offered many of her graduate courses fully online, including courses on learning theories, online design and educational technologies for language and literacies education. Clare’s research interests are focused in investigating technical and social supports, as well as challenges, for collaborative online learning as well as issues of diversity and inclusion in online spaces. Clare, with her colleague Professor Jim Hewitt lead the PeppeR Project,(https://pepperproject.ca) with their research team, an initiative dedicated to the design of educational software that fosters 21st century skills. Currently, they have a SSHRC grant entitled What does online interaction really contribute to the online learning experience?