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 Over two years, the project will create a First Year Experience toolkit, providing instructors with resources and supports to enhance their engagement and teaching effectiveness with first year students. It will also proactively and strategically develop collaborative structures that support the full integration of academic skill development into the curriculum, validating the importance of […]
Description The YU START New Student Transition Program is a collaborative program designed to support new students during the period of transition to university (pre-matriculation -- from the time of accepting an offer of admission to the first academic experience). In addition to the centralized coordination of communications to incoming students, YU START includes three […]
Description Building on a pilot project in Kinesiology, supplemental instruction is being offered in "high challenge" courses in Kinesiology and Psychology. High challenge courses are those that are historically difficult as measured by at least a 30% rate of low grades, failures and course withdrawals. The project involves trained peer learning facilitators who offer voluntary […]
Description This project is intended to convert the mandatory, in-person new student enrollment appointment to a staff/senior student supported, supervised and monitored online environment. A series of online video modules is being developed, supported by chat, voice exchange and corresponding learning exercises/assessment, to facilitate new student course enrollment, fostering students’ transition and enabling reallocation of […]
Description The HealthAid Network is a course-based peer mentorship program that aims to encourage student engagement, support academic success within the first year and develop student leadership capacity through peer mentorship. Students are placed into student success teams that consist of upper year students (team leaders) and first year students (team members). These student success […]
Description History in Practice/Histoire en Tête (HiP/HeT) is an open access consumer/survivor-informed mental health resource for teaching, learning, and knowledge sharing for future health practitioners and humanities and social science students. This project uniquely positions York as a leader and innovator that builds on York’s reputation for engaged scholarship and pedagogical innovation. In a pilot […]
Description Project Year 1: diversity program: embedding Virtual Reality as an experiential education medium to teach empathy The diVRsity Program focuses on building essential human skills, such as empathy, by raising awareness about important diversity issues, like accessibility. This human-powered, technology-enabled program equips students and educators with the tools they need to recognize universal design […]
Description This mixed method research project addresses two problems: 1) the need to understand more deeply the lived experiences of individuals living with mental illness in order to inform the design of a series of two mental health serious virtual simulation games (VSGs), geared for intersectoral students, nursing and social work, in post-secondary education and; […]
Description This project will develop a web-based platform for Kinesiology and Health Science (KAHS) undergraduate students focused on Knowledge Mobilization (KM) and community-based research (CBR) in sport and physical activity at York, Peel and Durham Regions. This platform will aim to spotlight digital storytelling, identify potential partnerships, and showcase the multidisciplinary dimensions and significance of […]