Nick Baker Email Address

Director Office of Open Learning

The University of Windsor is a comprehensive, student-centred university, with more than 16,500 students enrolled in a broad range of underg

Nick Baker is the Director of the Office of Open Learning and a faculty member in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Windsor. Actively engaging with the higher education change agenda in Ontario, Nick has most recently been a member of the Ontario Online Learning Consortium Joint Portal Committee, involved in several successful Productivity and Innovation Fund and HEQCO projects, and has led Windsor’s efforts in obtaining ShOC funding to further expand online course development with likeminded partner institutions. Nick has worked in higher education for over 15 years, and for more than a decade this work has focused online and blended learning, educational technologies, and organisational change. An award winning teacher, he currently teaches courses and workshops (both online and face to face) in higher education pedagogies, and has taught very large online and blended classes in ecology and conservation biology. Nick has been at the University of Windsor since 2009, where he works to improve access to education for all students through high quality flexible learning options, and ensuring that faculty have the tools they need to support innovative pedagogies. He has previously worked at the University of Queensland in various roles in the Teaching and Educational Development Institute, the University of Southern Queensland, and the Australian National University, all in Australia. He is a past board member of the Canadian Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and an active member of several other professional associations in higher education, including the Ontario Council on eLearning. His research spans the gambit of higher education, but has a particular focus on online and blended learning, organisational change, HE policy, and the interaction between instructor beliefs and pedagogical approaches.