Description As an extension of a pilot in the Faculty of LA&PS, Expanding University 101 is a project with three objectives. The course firstly aims to help incoming, direct-entry high school students (particularly those accessing post-secondary education for the first time) make a successful transition to university. Successful transitions positively impact both student success and […]
Description This project serves the dual purposes of expanding Virtual International Exchange opportunities at York University while offering undergraduate students exposure to research and academic work, beyond the standard curriculum. It strengthens the virtual journal club (VJC) for economics students run jointly with Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and first offered during the 2020/21 […]
Description Students experience success in transition to post-secondary education when provided with opportunities to engage in teamwork, self-reflection, self-regulation, scaffolded learning, and making real-world connections. Some students experience barriers in accessing co-curricular and extra-curricular programs meant to support acquisition of these skills. Project PATHS (Pedagogy that Aids Transition for Health Students) is a pan-Faculty of […]
Description There is a profound gap between learning science in a classroom versus working as a researcher to make new discoveries at the forefront of knowledge. The latter requires open-ended thinking and effective collaboration within international research teams, along with fluency in virtual workspaces and code and data sharing platforms. With these goals in mind, […]
Description This knowledge bank of workshops will contribute to enhancing the reputation of York University’s faculty members from across the 11 faculties. Through providing faculty members rich opportunities to collaborate and mentor their students, this project will empower them to be leaders. The structure of these cross-functional workshops fosters the transfer of knowledge across disciplines, […]
Description Virtual Worlds: Pan-Faculty Media Curriculum is an interdepartmental initiative in AMPD that aims to bolster student success with more robust skills development and new pan-faculty (PANF) areas of practice, focusing on virtual world-making, virtual production and animation. This project will facilitate student collaboration across AMPD through an innovative micro-credit system in technical knowledge with […]
Description As a project representing the priorities of the York University Academic Plan (UAP)—access, connectedness, excellence, opportunity and impact—AMPD UP will develop a central ePortfolio platform to support the work of AMPD students. These ePortfolios allow current students to exhibit studio work and research at different stages of their degree while providing graduating students with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]