Description This project aims to prototype a fundamentally different way to imagine space engineering education in a sustainable way, through a prototype 12-week intensive experience for students from across all undergraduate age groups, with TA support, in Summer 2021. The 12-week prototype will trial different, highly-integrated approaches to material taught, teaching time and methods, learning […]
Description Learning the Bruce is a capstone, experiential, field course held in Bruce County, Ontario. The Bruce Peninsula is a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve containing the largest continuous forest in southern Ontario and attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year to two national parks. There are a range of environmental, economic, social, and cultural […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
These projects focused upon embedding student success and student retention strategies within undergraduate degree programs. There are four funding categories. Category I: Pan-University Projects Category II A: Curricular Innovation Projects Category II B: Curricular Innovation Grant-Innovative Course Prototyping Category III: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Projects Quick Links Vice-Provost Teaching & Learning Teaching Commons […]
Description Responding to the rich sociolinguistic context and internationalization of York University, this project addresses the advanced language development of bi/multilingual international students at the undergraduate level and supports teaching and learning of core research inquiry skills and academic practices. Enriching traditional pedagogies with new technologies, the project will use mobile-enhanced H5P and responsive web […]
Description Accommodating students during skill training can be challenging, as mastery of skills oftentimes must be completed in a short timeframe. Yet when students are given the choice to record themselves performing a skill and to share their videos with self, peers and faculty, they experience many benefits: skill immersion, increase skill retention and improvement […]