Stories from the ground up: Reducing the knowledge translation gap in online teaching and learning.

While research on teaching and learning is active, productive, and innovative, it has disappointingly limited impact upon, and application to, real-world teaching and learning. The engine of translation, which powers advances in other fields, sputters and runs intermittently in post secondary education, leaving practitioners to reinvent methods and techniques that are known elsewhere but poorly shared or communicated. In this paper, we identify stories from a variety of stakeholders that aim to improve the practice of effective online teaching and learning. We have been involved in developing an online portal support hub for eCampusOntario.ca that is intended to provide evidence-based supports for faculty members and professional staff involved in developing and teaching online and blended courses. We describe this process in detail, and critically discuss corresponding insights about the utility of a digital support hub for bridging the knowledge translation gap in the context of online teaching and learning.