VROC

This article has multiple issues. Please help or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. (October 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (October 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Please help by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. (October 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Virtual Researcher on Call (VROC) is a Canadian educational program administered by Partners in Research. The program connects students with knowledge partners — researchers and professionals — in health and natural sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM fields) through video conferencing and video podcasts.^[1]

Video conferencing[]

Video conferencing technology is used to connect researchers and professionals in the STEM fields with elementary and secondary school classrooms for real time, interactive discussion.

Partners[]

VROC is partnered with over 40 universities, colleges and institutions as well as school boards across the country.^[2]

Funding[]

VROC began with a "Reaching Higher" grant from the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities in 2006 under the Dalton McGuinty government.^[3]

In 2011, Partners in Research was awarded a nearly million dollar grant from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario to teach southern Ontarian students about careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.^[4]

Partners in Research hosts a national annual awards reception and ceremony entitled The PIR National Awards to celebrate Canadian research in the STEM fields.^[5] Proceeds from this evening support the Virtual Researcher On Call Program.

Recognition[]

In 2006 VROC was named a "New and Noteworthy Initiative" by the Canadian Education Association.^[6]

VROC was awarded the ORION Discovery Award of Merit in 2008.^[7]

References[]

External links[]

• VROC web page
• Martinovic, Dragana; Pugh, Timothy; Magliaro, Jelena (2010). "Pedagogy for Mobile ICT Learning Using Video-Conferencing Technology" (PDF). Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management. 5: 375–392. doi:10.28945/1307.