Funded LITE Grant Projects: Experiential Learning

Developing a problem-solving course for hands on learning in geomatics and assessing its’ efficacy

Implementing a picture book design project in an undergraduate math course

Reworking a high enrollment online business course to improve engagement by incorporating a business simulation

Developing a rubric for written reflections on the characteristics of lifelong learning (curiosity, initiative, transfer, resilience, and reflection)

Assessing the efficacy of engineering “Design Days”

Implementing CivE days where students can completely immerse themselves in a simulated bridge design project

Evaluating the potential of using co-op student performance evaluation data as a source of external stakeholder input for graduation outcomes and improvements

Investigating the characteristics of regional CoPs and their effect on students, preceptors, and clinical coordinators

Assessing the impact of having community service learners in the classroom

Using Integrated Curriculum Design to create improved Tourism Development curriculum and give students experience problem solving

Investigating experiential learning opportunities for a course on diversity in leisure

Creation and assessment of an Intellectual Property training workshop for 4th year engineering students

Investigating the impact of project-based laboratories on the learning in chemical engineering

Creation of a clinical exam for Doctor of Optometry candidates

Examining student’s experiences and successes in Tourism courses

Developing a process plant design case study

Examining the efficacy of virtual clinical instructions on need finding abilities in co-op work terms

Introducing experiential learning into a laser pointer reverse engineering and fabricating learning activity

Assessing the impact of studying abroad on German and Canadian studies

Examining the effect of experiential learning on critical thinking

Designing an approach to separate entrepreneurship skills and success

Examining the learning outcomes of Indigenous teaching lenses on non-indigenous students

Investigating the value of practical experience with a Management of Oral Anticoagulation Therapy program

Creating seminars which promote experiential and place-based learning within otherwise online courses

Intervening on a capstone project design that was going poorly within engineering due to a lack of needs identification

Developing exercises and a software platform for experiential learning of game theory

Testing the benefit of addressing students’ interview nervousness as physiological adaptation immediately before a co-op interview

Using theatre students to simulate therapy sessions for viewing by psychology students, allowing both fields to gain experiential learning opportunities that may otherwise be lacking

Creating an opportunity for project/systems design students and engineering stakeholders to interact

Creating demonstration videos of hands-on activities provided in a civil engineering course that students do not get to experience all otherwise

Introducing an experiential learning component in a German language course to investigate impacts on student skillset

Examining the impact of studying abroad on identity development and language learning

Developing a 2-day design event for interdisciplinary work in urban planning

Continuing the creation of an open-access intro textbook for Canadian politics though students’ submissions

Investigating the use of disability disclosure strategies in co-operative education and the subsequent workplace outcomes