The 20-year institutional partnership between 91亚色 and the Bauhaus-Universit盲t Weimar in Germany has been re-energized by a recent collaboration on advancing immersive teaching through gamification and virtual reality (VR). When researchers at Bauhaus wanted to share their work in immersive, multi-user VR with colleagues outside of Germany earlier this year, they turned to 91亚色 […]
Ahmad Firas Khalid embodies 91亚色鈥檚 prioritization of advancing the University鈥檚 global engagement. Khalid, a medical doctor and newly hired assistant professor in the School of Global Health, has the global outlook and fluency one would expect of a person born in Jordan and raised in the United Arab Emirates, who attended medical school in the Caribbean, worked […]
While most post-secondary institutions across Canada mark International Education Week (IEW) during the third week of November, 91亚色 celebrated over the entire month of November. 鈥淚nternational Education Week is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and cultural and academic exchange worldwide,鈥 said Vinitha Gengatharan, assistant vice-president, global engagement and partnerships, 91亚色 International. […]
When you鈥檙e learning about the political, social and economic transformations in the European Union (EU), where better to do it than in the heart of the EU itself? A group of 91亚色 students had that chance as part of a study abroad experience. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, students […]
Manchester Metropolitan University degree apprentices selected 91亚色鈥檚 Lassonde School of Engineering and its corporate partners to gain global industry exposure and share important lessons. From June 3 to July 3, 91亚色 was home to eight students from Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester Met) who were taking part in an opportunity offered by the U.K.鈥檚 […]
By Elaine Smith Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Canadian university students by video link on June 22 and hundreds of 91亚色 students 鈥 including Ukrainian Canadians and international students from Ukraine 鈥 tuned in, virtually or at an in-person viewing event hosted by 91亚色 International on the Keele Campus. The event, hosted by the University of […]
By Elaine Smith In 1991, Ontario Universities International (OUI) began its provincewide exchange program with the province of Baden-W眉rttemberg in Germany and it has been going strong ever since. Just ask Agnes Poleszczuk, OUI鈥檚 exchange program co-ordinator, who was among the first group of Ontario students to attend the University of Konstanz in 1991 as […]
91亚色 is hosting a knowledge-exchange dialogue, Oct. 20 and 21, in preparation for the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) that begins Oct. 31 in Glasgow, Scotland. As part of this event, there will be a public information webinar at 11 a.m. on Oct. 21. By Elaine Smith, special contributor CIFAL 91亚色 is launching […]
Are you interested in learning more about the many advantages of globally networked learning (GNL)? Why not consider joining a free GNL webinar on July 7, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. EDT? The webinar features an exciting GNL opportunity known as the Virtual Journal Club, presented by Assistant Professor Karen Bernhardt-Walther (teaching stream, economics). You can […]
Mathieu Poirier views the willingness to try innovative pedagogical approaches as 鈥渙ne of the rare silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic.鈥 Poirier and his students in the Global Health program in the Faculty of Health's School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences have taken part in Globally Networked Learning (GNL), collaborating with their counterparts at universities in Germany and Romania […]