AIF-funded projects expanding Indigenous experiential and online learning

Celebrate Indigenous History Month by exploring 3 Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) projects highlighting Indigeneity and the impact they are having on our students, communities and world at large. Biskaabiiyaang: The Indigenous Metaverse Led by Anishinaabe professor Maya Chacaby (Glendon, Sociology), Biskaabiiyaang is a real time, fully immersive language and culture program delivered in a virtual […]

Collective Inclusion Pathways to Access (CIPA)

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 […]

Establishing the First Portable VR Learning Facility in the Faculty of Science

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 […]

E-Mentoring Program: Partnering Graduate and Undergraduate Nursing Students

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 […]

Biskaabiiyaang: The Indigenous Metaverse

Project Lead Maya Chacaby Faculty Glendon Funding Priority eLearning, Experiential Education

EE With, Not In: Respectful and Reciprocal Experiential Education with Jane and Finch Community Partners

Description EE With, Not In is a collaborative project that will support current and future students in their Experiential Education (EE) experiences in the Jane and Finch (JF) Community. The project calls for a reciprocal approach that is respectful of community knowledge and expertise in the JF community, instead of being grounded in assumptions and […]

Embedding Sustainable Development Goals and Twenty-First Century Teaching in the Glendon Curriculum

Description The Research Apprenticeship Program has, for the last nine years, provided first-year students at Glendon campus with individual, hands-on research training and mentoring from a faculty member. This AIF project builds on the successes of the Research Apprenticeship Program and extends it throughout the four years of undergraduate studies. Institutionalizing a commitment to sustainability […]

Student-Centric and Faculty-Sponsored Experiential Education Hub

Description This knowledge bank of workshops will contribute to enhancing the reputation of York University’s faculty members from across the 11 faculties. Through providing faculty members rich opportunities to collaborate and mentor their students, this project will empower them to be leaders. The structure of these cross-functional workshops fosters the transfer of knowledge across disciplines, […]

Curricular Innovation Grants

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 […]

Reimagining York's Mobility Programs: Towards Sustainable, Reflective, and Collaborative Models

Description This project offers a proactive, collaborative, engaging, and educational approach for York’s student mobility programs through combining international, experiential, and sustainability pedagogies. In collaboration with the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education toward Sustainability, students will reflect on their roles in meeting the UN sustainable goals individually, through adopting a lifelong holistic sustainable lifestyle, and […]