Riipen is a collaboration platform that facilitates experiential work integrated learning opportunities between post-secondary institutions, educators, industry partners and students. The platform allows all parties in your ecosystem to co-create, manage, assess and report on meaningful experiential learning opportunities efficiently and effectively.听 Riipen features a unique bi-directional matchmaking process in a robust marketplace, bringing together educators and learners to select from opportunities with over 42,000 business and industry partners.
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What is experiential project-based learning?
Experiential project-based learning is a teaching method that involves working collaboratively on an authentic, real-world problem with a company or non-profit partner. Using project-based learning, students can build upon their skills, develop their portfolio of experiences, and engage in impactful opportunities.听 The students typically work on these projects in small teams, with a deliverable at the conclusion of the project that can become part of your course requirements.
Riipen is available for all faculty at 91亚色, in all disciplines, working with all levels of students in all modalities of delivery, including in-class and online experiences.听 Project opportunities are generally virtual in nature, and may be synchronous or asynchronous.听 Limited in-person engagements may also available.听 Riipen provides聽 end-to-end support, including course project ideation and design, technical support and student onboarding, and matchmaking with industry partners locally and globally.听 Generally, the process should be started 4-6 weeks prior to semester start to afford time for successful alignment between educators and industry partners.
Steps for Educators to Get Started on Riipen:
Getting started to bring opportunities to your course with Riipen is easy!聽 Take a look at this quick overview, or contact the dedicated Riipen-91亚色 team at yorku@riipen.com for further assistance:
- Join the as an educator.听
- Connect with the dedicated Riipen-91亚色 team directly to schedule your course planning and onboarding session by emailing yorku@riipen.com.听
- During your course planning session, you鈥檒l collaborate to build a draft experience post on Riipen which will be used to match with the best industry partners.听 You鈥檒l also establish requirements, milestones, and expected timelines.听
- Riipen will provide project recommendations, and you鈥檒l also have full access to thousands of options in the Riipen open marketplace.
- You will approve the company projects that you want to pair with students.
- The students start working on the projects with requirements and a timeline you determine.
Steps for Employers to Get Started on Riipen:
Getting started to work with 91亚色 students is easy!聽 Take a look at this quick overview for next steps, or reach out to the dedicated Riipen-91亚色 team for further assistance yorku@riipen.com.听
- Sign Up for Riipen.听 If you haven鈥檛 already received an email invitation directly to the 91亚色 portal, please using this special link.
- Create your personal and company profiles.听 As part of the sign-up, you鈥檒l be walked through creating both a personal profile and a profile for your company, which you can invite colleagues to.听
- . Your project will be a description of what you would like students to do for your company.听 If you are setting up your account based on an email invitation from Riipen, you may already have a draft project started for you! You can check this by going to your dashboard.听
- Publish your project so that it is live and ready to be matched with students!
- After you鈥檝e signed up using the access link, you will be able to see all of the Riipen courses that are currently being offered at 91亚色. Click 鈥楽chools鈥 in your dashboard to see the school(s) you are working with.
- If you see a course or program that looks like a good fit, click on 鈥淪ubmit Project鈥 in the top right corner of the posting. This will prompt you to select a project that you have created.
- It is also possible to browse courses and programs before creating a project. If you see a posting that you鈥檙e interested in, clicking on 鈥淪ubmit Project鈥 in the top right corner will take you straight to the Project Wizard in order to create a new project from scratch.
- Watch for notifications about your acceptance by educators, where you鈥檒l dialogue about alignment and next steps in working with students.