Teaching and Learning Innovation

Project PATHS: Pedagogy that Aids Transition for Health Students

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 […]

Mentorship and Mutual Support for Graduate Students in STEM

Description This project will explore the landscape and lay the foundation for a future curricular intervention. It will aim to augment the mentorship that Black, Indigenous, or Persons of Colour (BIPOC) and women-identifying graduate students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines at York currently receive with cross-campus connection, reflection and support. The starting […]

Experiential Learning Opportunity through Research and Exchange (EXPLORE)

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, […]

Embedding Sustainable Development Goals and Twenty-First Century Teaching in the Glendon Curriculum

Description The Research Apprenticeship Program has, for the last nine years, provided first-year students at Glendon campus with individual, hands-on research training and mentoring from a faculty member. This AIF project builds on the successes of the Research Apprenticeship Program and extends it throughout the four years of undergraduate studies. Institutionalizing a commitment to sustainability […]

Student-Centric and Faculty-Sponsored Experiential Education Hub

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, […]

Virtual Worlds: Pan-Faculty Media Curriculum

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 […]

Enhancing the AMPD eLearning Ecosystem: AMPD UP ePortfolio

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 […]

The Creation of Virtual Simulation Games (VSG’s) as Experiential Education for Students in Clinical Nursing Courses

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 […]

Curricular Innovation Grants

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 will support the embedding of international perspectives/opportunities. High […]

Open Access Teaching & Learning grants

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 […]