Description This project aims to investigate the challenges of curricular integration of first-year experience programming by building on a successful pilot initiative in which students were invited to complete a variety of modules designed to help them reflect on their academic skills and set goals for successful completion of their first year and beyond. This […]
Description This project plans to increase student success and retention among first-year economics majors through elearning technologies. In 2020-2021, this project will embed the ALEKS Placement, Preparation and Learning (PPL) System – an adaptive online learning environment – in the first-year Mathematics for Economists course, ECON1530. Using ALEKS, students write an initial formative assessment during […]
Description The purpose of this year AIF is to help students with disabilities (SWD) succeed in placement. Between 2017-2020, students participated in 9000 course-based placements programs! Experiential education provides students with "real life" opportunities to demonstrate professional standards in performing skills and to transition to their new identities as professionals. Thus, placements are critical bridges […]
Description This project will implement an individualized framework supporting professional skills development for graduate students across the university. Rather than asking students to adapt needs and interests to a standardized curriculum, this project will introduce an individualized development plan (IDP) providing students with tools and resources that will allow them (in consultation with others) to […]
Description Implementing Generic Skills for Student Success in the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design, co-led by Associate Professor Judith Schwarz (Visual Art & Art History) and Assistant Professor Bridget Cauthery (Dance), supports the development of a blended course focused on improving the generic skills of AMPD’s undergraduate students. PANF 1900 “Skills for Success in […]
Description The AIF project “Medical History and Humanities in Transnational Context” will develop a new, pan-Faculty undergraduate certificate in Medical History and Humanities. Medical History and Humanities (MHH) is a well-established field of scholarship. A range of allied health professions – including nursing, medicine, physiotherapy and dietetics – view MHH as a vehicle through which […]
Description This program is to develop and enhance faculty and students’ capacities to work within the Open Educational Resources model (OER). Students engage in new forms of inverse pedagogies (e.g. hackathons, prototyping workshops and transnational working groups) acquiring a global mindset in civic and social stewardship. By creating OER, students are exposed to inquiry-based learning […]
Description The YU ROC! (York University Research on Campus) Program will establish and maintain a student-run urban biodiversity monitoring program on campus. The program will connect first-year and upper year students who share a passion for the environment and encourage them to actively pursue that passion by engaging in hands-on environmental research opportunities on both […]
Description The BetaSpace project – named after the media industry’s term “beta release” for a project that is ready for public testing – will develop the 4th year curriculum within CMA’s new Media Arts BFA, as well as establish a co-working space that can facilitate interdepartmental initiatives with cutting-edge digital equipment and resources, professional mentorship […]
Description This project is based on an assessment on 967 LA&PS students' generic critical skills (i.e., writing, textual analysis, test writing, time and group management, research giving presentations, and numeracy) conducted in October 2017 (Grayson & Kenedy 2018). In light of the findings the students reported critical skills deficiencies, we propose the development of a […]