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Towards a Balanced Artistic Production Methodology/Pedagogy at AMPD through Critical Making and Sustainable Design 2020-2022

Description The AMPD Makerspace’s central goal is to integrate digital fabrication and related technologies into AMPD curriculum and the activities of staff and students, in order to enhance experiential education opportunities, improve student learning outcomes, and foster intercultural and international work through invited exhibitions and external projects.  After almost a year of operations, we have […]

Bridging Theory and Practice in Risk and Insurance Studies

Description The gap between formal education and the needs of the insurance industry, and financial services more generally, has never been more disconcerting. The recent financial crisis is often quoted as a corollary of this gap, and theoreticians are blamed. But misuse of the theory in applications is just one horseman of the apocalypse. Another […]

Better Recruitment, Retention and Undergraduate Learning Through Mechatronics Experiential Education

Description Many freshman engineering students are choosing their program or area of concentration with very little understanding of engineering itself. While traditional lab courses help students better grasp the studied theories, they rarely help to instill the idea that engineering is about “doing” and not just learning “equations, heuristics, and theories”. This project aims at […]

diVRsity (CVRriculum) program: embedding Virtual Reality as an experiential education medium to teach empathy

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 […]

Person-Centered Serious Games for Mental Health Education and Interprofessional Care

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; […]

Environmental Education of York University Students: Windows, Art and the Conservation of Migratory Birds

Description Undergraduate students in three BES courses in the Faculty of Environmental Studies will learn about the songbird window collision problem, songbird migration and solutions through their collaboration to install window art, effective for reducing bird deaths, on a set of windows in the Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies (HNES) building: ENVS 2122 Community art […]

Building a York Capstone Network

Description Over the next two years the York Capstone Network will build a community of practice and structure of support to increase access to, capacity for, and expertise in capstone courses at York. First, we will host monthly Capstone Cafés during the school year where capstone research, knowledge, and strategies will be shared among professors, […]

Critical Making at York and Beyond: The School of the Arts, Media Performance and Design (AMPD) Makerspace

Description The Maker movement is a community-based movement that utilizes new, emerging and accessible technologies to make things and create solutions addressing a wide range of needs, problems and goals.  At York, this growing culture is reflected in the increase in studio spaces and laboratories with ‘makerware’ technologies like 3D printers, laser cutters and digital […]

Experiential Education in a Mathematics Discipline via an Experimental Teaching and Learning space

Description Housed in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, this collaborative teaching and learning space will have students: designing experiments that are modelled by mathematical equations, using mathematical software and tools commonly used in industry, which will aid in the design and collection of the results of the experiment, writing scientific and technical reports, and […]

The Las Nubes Program: A Semester Abroad at York’s Eco-Campus in Costa Rica

Description The Las Nubes Program will offer students a richly experiential education living and studying in smallholder farming communities in a southern Costa Rica conservation region, the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor (ASBC). Incorporating courses open to students in the Lassonde School of Engineering’s Environmental Engineering program as well as the Faculty of Health’s Global Health […]