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Block Delivery Pilot for Improving First-Year Success and Retention

Description

This project will pilot a transformative block model of delivering the first-year curricula of six undergraduate engineering programs, inspired by the successful VU Block at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. The block model reimagines how we teach first-year students at York. It is designed to improve first-year success and retention.

The block model is a unique way of learning where instead of juggling many courses, students complete one subject at a time (with an additional course running throughout the whole term). so that means, students take one class for 3.5 weeks, complete it, and start another course right after - allowing students to give their full focus to one topic at a time. The block model is also a fully-blended curriculum. This means students study on campus three days a week and study from home for two—the blended delivery gives students more flexibility (and they spend less time commuting)

Project Lead(s)

Jeffrey Harris

Faculty

Lassonde School of Engineering

Funding Priority

student success