Funded LITE Grant Projects: Learning Technologies

Assessing the impact of incorporating a Twitter assignment into a Public Health and Nutrition course

Assessing how GenAI is used by students, instructors, and health-related employees to develop instructional recommendations for better preparing students for the workforce

Creation of an online learning resource that uses VR for engineering lab courses

Developing and testing an augmented reality app that displays and manipulates molecular structures

Creating a new series of geography labs using a menu driven app for climate modelling

Integrating game-based learning in computer science and assessing efficacy

Developing a game for students to learn how to identify social, cultural, and ethical implications of their research

Assessing the impact of sci-fi themed gamification for calculus in the sciences

Assessing how integrating AI-driven Virtual Standardized Patients can improve pharmacy students’ clinical skills, diagnostic proficiency, and communication abilities

Explores the use of virtual reality (VR) in a 4th-year design course, focusing on practical challenges, opportunities, and the impact on student creativity and collaboration

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

Exploring how graduate supervisors navigate the use of generative AI tools in research and writing, to develop resources and guidelines for both supervisors and students

Redesigning Mobile Information Literacy modules for increased learning and student literacy skills

Creation of video and modelling software resources for learning anatomy

A two-phase research study with undergraduates enrolled in a Psychology course, taken by students from a variety of faculties, that explores how they encounter GenAI

Creation of a multi-media resource that illustrates the historical mapping and documentation of treaty making in Canada

“Mycroft” aims to enhance the AI-based Virtual Teaching Assistant (VTA) by adding conversational memory and prompts to improve accessibility, engagement, and support for students and staff in the classroom

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

Creation of an auto-grading exercise resource for relational algebra

Creation of a Printmaker's handbook for the instruction and stewardship practices for printmaking

Piloting a competition of undergraduate video creation on statistical topics from introductory statistics courses

Assessing student podcasting as a form of project-based learning for scientific communication

Creation of a digital “deep” map of the Second Battle of Ypres

Assessing the efficacy of personal technology blocking applications and the distractions present in health sciences