The Impact of International Graduate Student Colleges in Graduate Student Well-being, Development, and Global Citizenship Education
Project Investigator: Henry Yu, Associate Professor & Principal, St. John’s College, Department of History & Vice-Provost (International) Project Description The project is a qualitative study of the impact of residential living in a multicultural international graduate student residence on postgraduate education and development and global citizenship education. We aim to conduct semi-structured focus groups and […]
Measuring and enhancing student motivation in forestry undergraduates
Project Investigator: Andres Varhola, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Forest Resources Management Project Description Lack of motivation is an important driver of low engagement and performance among undergraduates. While the logical first step to enhance motivation is measuring it, no peer-reviewed study has reported motivation indicators for forestry students. Discipline-specific motivational scaling is important because career […]
EMOTION(ALITY) AND EMOTIVE WRITING: ASSESSING THE IMPACTS IN/ON THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES CLASSROOM
Project Investigator: Pheroze Unwalla Project Description In MES300 The Middle East: Critical Questions & Debates, students examine the troubled history of Middle East Studies (MES) and then work todecolonize and resituate the field within a social justice framework. This project evaluates the impact of emotion(ality) in MES300 and beyond. Inparticular, it assesses the transformative potential […]
Evaluating the Efficacy, Accessibility, Pedagogical Implications and Labour Costs of Adopting an OER in a Greek and Roman Myth Course
Project Investigator: Tara Mulder, Assistant Professor of Teaching, CNERS Project Description This project aims to investigate the efficacy, accessibility, pedagogical implications, and labour costs of adopting the open-access e-textbook, Mythoi Koinoi: An Open Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth in a 100-level undergraduate Greek and Roman myth course. Mythoi Koinoi was created with an […]
Assessing the Support Needed for Program-Wide Community-Engaged Learning in the Coordinated Arts Program
Project Investigators: Erin Goheen, Lecturer, Coordinated Arts Program and Moberley Luger, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of English Language and Literatures Project Description In the Coordinated Arts Program (CAP)—an interdisciplinary first-year cohort program—we have been developing Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) curriculum tailored specifically for first-year with support from CCEL, a TLEF, and WorkLearn positions. CEL is […]
Fostering Learning Community: how may a collaborative learning environment lead to meaningful exploration in an online, synchronous introductory food science course?
Project Investigator: Judy Chan, Sessional Lecturer, Food, Nutrition, and Health Project Description Collaborative learning has been a key instructional theme in FNH200-942, a summer intensive session where students explore sciences of foods we eat. Students enrolled in this course came with diverse academic and cultural backgrounds, joined from multiple time zones, and have different personal […]