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Developing a Culture of Academic Honesty: Online Modules for Academic Honesty Education and Cultural Development at 91ÑÇÉ«

Description This project is an e-learning student success initiative, which will create online, values-driven and culturally situated academic honesty modules for undergraduate students. It will also provide a centralized online portal for academic honesty policy, procedures and supports at 91ÑÇÉ«. This initiative will teach students how to engage in effective learning activities to further succeed […]

Expanding University 101

Description As an extension of a pilot in the Faculty of LA&PS, Expanding University 101 is a project with three objectives. The course firstly aims to help incoming, direct-entry high school students (particularly those accessing post-secondary education for the first time) make a successful transition to university. Successful transitions positively impact both student success and […]

91ÑÇÉ«U-LMU Virtual Journal Club (Year 2)

Description This project serves the dual purposes of expanding Virtual International Exchange opportunities at 91ÑÇÉ« while offering undergraduate students exposure to research and academic work, beyond the standard curriculum. It strengthens the virtual journal club (VJC) for economics students run jointly with Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and first offered during the 2020/21 […]

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 91ÑÇÉ« 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 91ÑÇɫ’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 91ÑÇÉ« 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 […]