Funding

The Creation of Virtual Simulation Games (VSG’s) as Experiential Education for Students in Clinical Nursing Courses

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

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 […]

Open Access Teaching & Learning grants

The AIF awarded 25 Open Access Teaching & Learning grants (Category IV) for 2020 - 2021. Open Access Teaching and Learning Grants were open to full-time and contract faculty members to encourage the development of open access learning resources during COVID-19. The focus of the call is on non-curricular initiatives to provide engagement opportunities and […]

Academic Innovation Fund (AIF)

Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) Enabling teaching and learning innovation The Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) supports projects that advance York Universty's priorities in terms of teaching, learning and the student experience. Since 2011, the AIF has supported faculty and campus partners in their efforts to develop new and exciting ways to educate students. LEARN MORE Quick […]

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 […]

Building Intercultural Competencies and Skills for Business Students

Description The purpose of this project is to develop a systematic co-curricular program that prepares students for the complex cultural learning environment at Schulich and York University more generally. Schulich brings together a heterogenous student population with diverse national, cultural, social and economic backgrounds. As students encounter different viewpoints, values and practices, it produces on […]

International Experiential Learning (IEL) Program in Engineering

Description The purpose of this project is to incorporate experiential learning into a study aboard program, which would transform it into an international experiential learning (IEL) program. Students enrolling in the proposed IEL program will (i) take part in a 4-week long intensive engineering course in the summer, and (ii) conduct a companion internship or […]

Languages and Cultures in the Literature and Linguistics Curriculum: Incorporating Current Debates of Studies in Diaspora and Indigeneity into the Classroom

Description The project seeks to survey a selection of course materials in literature and linguistics courses offered in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics in order to identify, enhance, and create course materials focusing on aspects of diaspora, internationalization and indigeneity. A primary goal of the project is to develop strategies that can be […]

Internationalized Student Learning Outcomes: Incorporating Global Health competencies into HH/NURS 4546: Global Context of Nursing

Description As part of York University’s Academic Plan, the University is currently reviewing their internationalization activities and objectives including internalization of the curriculum. Internationalising the curriculum involves providing students with global perspectives of their discipline and giving them a broader knowledge base for their future careers. Internationalizing the student learning outcomes of HH/NURS 4546: Global […]

Experiential Engineering Learning in an International Context

Description The purpose of this project is to provide undergraduate students with an experiential learning opportunity that has two components both done in an international context: (i) taking part in a month long intensive course, and (ii) conduct a companion internship of minimum of 12 weeks. The course in the area of sustainability and manufacturing […]