Description Designed to foster closer engagement between York students and faculty and heritage sites, institutions and organizations in the GTA and lead to development of a public history course, the project has several components: developing an inventory of local heritage resources and links with organizations, encouragement of incorporation of these resources into courses, and a […]
Description NOISE for social change is a unique engaged learning opportunity for social work students at York. It brings social work students together with high school students from the Jane-Finch community and York University alumni in 20 community actions pods. Throughout 2012-2013 each pod will design and implement a community project. This invaluable multi-directional learning […]
Description The project involves development of a blended course, and the incorporation of technology to support placement of students in media or communication positions utilizing research methods skills developed in their studies. The technology will facilitate connections between the seminar group and their placements, and students will be supported during their placements through the online […]
Description Social Policy Ideas Lab (SPIL) aims to provide interactive education to undergraduate students who are willing to work very hard to learn by doing empirical research on social policy. As an experiential education project, SPIL engages undergraduate students outside the classroom to explore different pressing social policy problems of our times and search for […]
Description The Business & Public Administration Internship Program is an optional experiential education program that provides Honours Bachelor Degree students, majoring in Administrative Studies, Business & Society, Communication Studies, Economics or Public Administration, with the opportunity to apply their classroom learning in a workplace environment between their 3rd and 4th years of study. Through these […]
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 This project converts the existing Financial Planning Stream in the School of Administrative Studies to full online delivery. In line with York’s eLearning priority, conversion of these courses will provide accessible, rigorous, innovative, and flexible learning for working professionals and students across Canada. This online offering will be of great interest particularly for mature […]
Description Colleagues in LA&PS and Health, with the support of University Information Technology (UIT), are collaborating in developing a systematic, scalable approach to enhancing student accessibility and learning through technology. We are creating the infrastructure for implementing, delivering and evaluating web-enhanced, blended and online courses, including the integrated pedagogical and technical supports instructors need to […]
Description York contributed on-line sections of LA&PS (anthropology and geography) courses to an award-winning initiative offering an Australian Catholic University diploma in liberal studies for refugees on the Thai-Burma border. In addition, the project involves development of virtual field trips/ethnography in partnership with Thai universities, whereby York undergraduate and graduate students, along with refugee and […]
Description This project involves the creation of a Moodle based eLearning platform for the ESL foundation courses that are offered to undergraduate students from all faculties and across the disciplines. An overarching yet customizable eLearning platform will be very useful in a multi-section course. It will be used for the posting of common information (course […]