Libraries Liaison York University Libraries Dana is the Director of Student Learning and Academic Success within the York University Libraries. She has been involved in teaching Information Literacy classes and is part of many experiential education initiatives at York, where she applies student-focused design to her work. She co-founded York’s Undergraduate Research Fair where students […]
SoTL Research Associate AMPD An Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance, Bridget was recognized with a President’s University-Wide Teaching Award in 2018 and the inaugural AMPD e-learning teaching award in 2014. She has been an invited speaker on effective blended learning strategies and researches the impact of innovative teaching methods on undergraduate learning. With […]
SoTL Research Assistant Funded by the Research at York (RAY) Program, Health Alice is a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) researcher and course instructor with a background in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She has been on the C4 leadership team since the course was first offered to help guide and conduct SoTL investigations on C4. […]
Project Summary Like many people in the non-profit sector we came into this hoping to make an impact on the Jane and Finch community, a community about which we did not realize we held many unexamined beliefs. As we faced challenges, shortcomings, and failures, it became clear that before we engaged in this kind of […]
CooperLab Project Summary Our project aims to address the issue of affordable and clean energy for remote and developing communities. The solution we created is a low-cost solar concentrator that generates both heat and electricity. This technology was designed using affordable and accessible materials to magnify the irradiance of the sun twenty times onto the […]
Yonge Street Mission Project Summary Our project was to create an online platform that bridged the gap between frontline workers and the newest research relating to poverty-related trauma. Initially, we had decided that our solution would involve us conducting research and drawing our own conclusions regarding poverty-related trauma, then providing our reports and findings to […]
Foundation for Environmental Stewardship (FES) Project Summary We are Women’s Youth Network, a youth-led conglomerate of women, feminists, and human rights activists across the globe focused on empowering women & youth by connecting them to each other, facilitating self-organization, self-determination, and self-sustenance. Learn More Project Website Student Faculties Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Sustainable Development […]
More Than Marks Tutoring and Oakville Arts Studio, Inc. Project Summary Depression and isolation amongst youth have been serious problems in educational settings for over a decade. Our challenge was to find ways to increase positive social relations between pre-high school youth. Using an assets-based strategy and community development practices, we built a digital toolkit […]
Glendon Globally Networked Learning Project Summary We wanted to make a difference by helping students who are planning to study abroad and or are already preparing to venture off. Aside from the decision to travel to a new place just for school, making choices can be very difficult and stressful especially when trying to find […]
Canobi Tech Project Summary Our project was essentially to create a standalone convenient food growing unit that can be used easily in the most common of urban settings. This food-growing unit would also reduce the pressure on the urban biosphere whilst boosting its ecological benefits. We wanted to make a positive impact on the environment […]