Description Our purpose is to increase the success of students with disabilities (SWD) in work placements. Work placements are important experiential education (EE) experiences in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) as they transition students to professional roles. Currently access for SWD is heavily reliant on an accommodations model predicated on disclosure of a medical diagnosis. Previous […]
Description Our AIF project will pioneer the use of virtual reality (VR) as a cutting-edge teaching tool in the Faculty of Science. We will establish a portable VR learning facility that will become available to faculty members who wish to use it in their courses. The AIF funding will allow the purchase of VR headsets […]
Description Inspired by Robbio’s (2018) doctoral work, this educational initiative will explore e-mentoring as a socialization strategy for 4th year collaborative nursing students who will soon transition into professional practice. Robbio’s study confirmed that workplace adjustment and socialization into the profession is difficult. This transition has been further impacted during the current pandemic, when nursing […]
Project Lead(s): Vassilios Tzerpos, Melanie Baljko Faculty: Lassonde Funding Priority eLearning, Student Success
Project Lead(s) Chris Carder, David Kwok Faculty Schulich Funding Priority eLearning, Internationalization
Project Lead Maya Chacaby Faculty Glendon Funding Priority eLearning, Experiential Education
Description Virtual Worlds: Pan-Faculty Media Curriculum is an interdepartmental initiative in AMPD that aims to bolster student success with more robust skills development and new pan-faculty (PANF) areas of practice, focusing on virtual world-making, virtual production and animation. This project will facilitate student collaboration across AMPD through an innovative micro-credit system in technical knowledge with […]
Description As a project representing the priorities of the York University Academic Plan (UAP)—access, connectedness, excellence, opportunity and impact—AMPD UP will develop a central ePortfolio platform to support the work of AMPD students. These ePortfolios allow current students to exhibit studio work and research at different stages of their degree while providing graduating students with […]
Description This project will create sustainable and accessible virtual simulation games (VSG’s) for use within the undergraduate nursing curriculum. The VSG’s developed will integrate current nursing practice and theory, which will be used to support curricular concepts. These VSG’s will present virtual client narratives and clinical situations for nursing students to safely and confidently experience […]
Curricular Innovation Grants were open to full-time and contract faculty members. Grants for eLearning support course redesign incorporating blended learning, fully online learning or the flipped classroom Grants for EE support the embedding of three (3) EE Strategies: Classroom-focused, Community-focused, and Work-focused (work-integrated learning). Grants for Internationalization will support the embedding of international perspectives/opportunities. High […]