Ron Owston
Research Associate, Research Associate, Contact North/Contact Nord, Canada
Dr. Ron Owston is a professor of education and former Dean of the Faculty of Education and founding Director of the Institute for Research in Learning Technologies (now IRDL) at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In June 2007, York University awarded him the honorary title of University Professor for his “extraordinary contribution to the University as a colleague, teacher, and scholar.” Currently, he is on sabbatical leave and serving as Research Associate at Contact North/Contact Nord in Ontario.
He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences, and published in a variety of fields including technology in education, program evaluation, and teacher development in journals such as Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, Research in the Teaching of English, Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, Journal of Information Technology in Teacher Education, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Internet & Higher Education, and Journal of Research on Computing in Education. His past projects include: external evaluator for the ABEL/Learning Connections online teacher community, a study on games to support literacy at grade 4, and an evaluation of Moodle use and lecture capture in large undergraduate courses in York’s Faculty of Health, the evaluation of blended learning courses at York's Faculty of Fine Arts. He just completed the evaluation of a 1:1 iPad project in the Hamilton Wentworth School District in the Toronto area.