Lesley Wilton

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

Publications

Private Interactions in Online Discussions: Instructor Perspectives
Lesley Wilton, Rubaina Khan, Clare Brett, Paul C. Alexander. © 2023. 29 pages.
Private discussion entries (called “notes” in this chapter) provide opportunities for instructors to engage with students for social and cognitive support in discussion-based...
Handbook of Research on Online Discussion-Based Teaching Methods
Lesley Wilton, Clare Brett. © 2020. 536 pages.
In this digital age, faculty, teachers, and teacher educators are increasingly expected to adopt and adapt pedagogical perspectives to support student learning in instructional...
Private Interactions in Online Discussions: Instructor Perspectives
Lesley Wilton, Rubaina Khan, Clare Brett, Paul C. Alexander. © 2020. 29 pages.
Private discussion entries (called “notes” in this chapter) provide opportunities for instructors to engage with students for social and cognitive support in discussion-based...
Beyond Apps in Pre-Service Education: Unpacking Perceptions of TPACK and Global Competencies
Lesley Wilton, Clare Brett. © 2019. 23 pages.
This chapter presents a multiyear case study in a two-year graduate teacher education program at a large urban university in Canada. This research studies how the incorporation...