Description This project leverages programs, resources for teaching and research, and relationships associated with 91亚色's Las Nubes Project. The purpose is first to develop a model for field experiences associated with the research, conservation and educational mission of the Las Nubes Project, and second, to extend the use of 91亚色's EcoCampus and Semester Abroad […]
Description Ontario鈥檚 coal phase-out and its new climate change plan have transformed our province into a leading renewable energy destination in North America. Ontario is also home to a new community-oriented renewable energy approach located in Oxford County. The proposed project will create a signature one-week event titled the International Renewable Energy Academy (IREA). IREA […]
Description There is an urgent need to embed career relevancy and support for students鈥 personal and academic development within the curriculum, without compromising academic integrity, or adding greater burden on faculty. A collaboration of the Student Success Centre, Teaching Commons and Learning Commons, the purpose of this project is to develop a Moodle-based repository of […]
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 鈥 an adaptive online learning environment 鈥 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鈥檚 undergraduate students. PANF 1900 鈥淪kills for Success in […]
Description The AIF project 鈥淢edical History and Humanities in Transnational Context鈥 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 鈥 including nursing, medicine, physiotherapy and dietetics 鈥 view MHH as a vehicle through which […]
Description This program is to develop and enhance faculty and students鈥 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 […]