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eLearning funded projects

These projects focused upon embedding eLearning within undergraduate or graduate degree programs using blended and fully online strategies.

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

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2021-Present

Phase 4

  1. The Creation of Virtual Simulation Games (VSG’s) as Experiential Education for Students in Clinical Nursing Courses
  2. Enhancing the AMPD eLearning Ecosystem: AMPD UP ePortfolio  
  3. Virtual Worlds: Pan-Faculty Media Curriculum 
  4. Biskaabiiyaang: Indigenous Resurgence
  5. The Entrepreneurial Mindset/Skillset eLearning and Video Database Initiative (a Schulich + YSpace partnership)
  6. Leveraging Adaptive Learning Pathways to Improve Access and Engagement within an LMS Environment
  7. E-Mentoring Program: Partnering Graduate and Undergraduate Nursing Students
  8. Establishing the First Portable VR Learning Facility in the Faculty of Science
  9. Pedagogical & EDI Training for Teaching Assistants in the Arts
  10. Advancing “Writing and Research Skills:” International Educated Nursing Students (IENs)
  11. XR Technology Bootcamp: Storytelling in the Metaverse
  12. (Re)-Creating Asynchronous, Interactive Lecture Modules for the Principles of Economics Course

Curricular Innovation Grants were open to full-time and contract faculty members.

  • Grants for eLearning course support 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 support the embedding of international perspectives/opportunities.

A full list of grants that were awarded can be found here.

  1. Live 2: Investigating the Best Modalities for Synchronous Remote Experiential Education via Mobile Video Livestreaming
  2. Improving Student Engagement in On-Line Learning: A comparison between traditional and gamification participation assessments
  3. Digital Hands-on Learning: A Visual Ethnography of a Teacher Educator and His Student Teachers Learning To Create Digital Content To Teach English as a Second Language
  4. Using the Classroom and School Community Scale instrument to measure course communities in various online learning environments
  5. Enhancing learning interactions through microlearning in online language courses

2018 – 2021

Phase 3

  1. Navigating the Keele and Markham Campuses Through New Digitally Engaged Programs in AMPD
  2. Borderless BA in Educational Studies: Leveraging elearning for internationalization through the development of an online degree
  3. Bilingual Open Educational Resources for Civic and Social Stewardship
  4. Snapshots@York: Constructing an e-Learning Resource for Clear-Language Communication Skills Development
  5. Smartphones to accommodate students: A Skill Training Tool-Box
  6. New Digital Storytelling: Student Experience of Professional Socialization
  7. Strategizing for High Stakes Computerized Exams
  8. Financial Planning Education Online: Expanding York’s Reach
  9. Teaching, Learning, and Leading Development of Mobile-Enhanced Academic Practices

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 support the embedding of international perspectives/opportunities.

A full list of grants that were awarded can be found here.

  1. Videographic Criticism in Cinema & Media Studies and Media Arts Pedagogy
  2. Developing pedagogy and experiential education for a design studio course for non-Design major students utilizing a blended learning platform
  3. Understanding the implementation of flipped classrooms from student and instructor perspective

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 support to our current, incoming, and prospective students as well as to members of the public.

A list of awarded grants can be found here.

2015 – 2018

Phase 2

  1. Mathematics Education Online: Increasing graduate engagement through eLearning
  2. French proficiency and academic success in bilingual education: linking content-based courses and french for specific academic purposes tutorial
  3. The Glendon Digital Media Lab (GDML)
  4. Virtual Learning Skills Program
  5. Building a culture of integrity
  6. Creation of Guidelines for York University Faculty & Instructors on Best Practices in eLearning under the Auspices of York’s Teaching Commons (TC) using Online and Blended Natural Science (NATS) Courses as a Model
  7. Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) for Teaching & Learning
  8. Business Research Foundations Modules
  9. Enhanced Virtual Classroom Environment – When the Classroom Goes to the…Students
  10. First Year Integrated Science
  11. Looking to the Future: Building State-of-the-Art eLearning in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD)

eLearning Curricular Innovation Grants under Phase 2 of the Academic Innovation Fund, can be found here.

2011 – 2014

Phase 1

  1. Adapting Technology in the Service of Enhanced Educational Engagements in Teacher Education
  2. Automating practice and evaluations components for large Philosophy Department
  3. Connecting Students to Art and Community through Strategic Goals and Innovations in eLearning
  4. Effective Strategies and Implementation of Blended/Online (eLearning) Formats in Large Science Courses
  5. Enhancing Student Interactivity in ESL Foundations Courses with Moodle
  6. Intercultural learning through virtual and on-site exchanges between York University students, refugee students on the Thai Burma border and displaced migrant students in Ranong, Thailand
  7. Project to expand greatly materials for oral and written practice in Glendon/Keele first-year French courses
  8. The Development of a Sustainable, Quality e-Learning Program for the Faculties of Health and LA&PS 
  9. Trans-disciplinary Innovation in Pedagogy: Advancing Educational Reform on the World Wide Web
  10. Virtual Learning Commons
  11. Virtual Orientation to Support Services for Students with Disabilities

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