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 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 […]
Description This project is using a large-format scanner, a sustainable workflow, and immersive learning opportunities for undergraduate students to digitize a selection of printed maps held by the Map Library and Archives and Special Collections at York University. The digitized maps will be catalogued and discoverable online for York students and faculty, and can be […]
Description Advancing student success strategies within the curriculum is the priority of this project which focuses on creating a system for faculty members and students that enables the careful review and monitoring of program quality and effectiveness. Continual program improvement is only possible with careful and thoughtful analysis of many indicators for success, but by […]
Description This pan-university project aims to build on the momentum of two former AIF projects that the co-leads have developed and sustained: “First Year Transition Course Supported by Experiential Learning and eLearning: a 3 pronged approach to enhancing the First Year Experience.” This 3 credit General Education course is made up of experiential seminars in which […]