- Providing Chemical Analyses for Community Partners
- With the support of the LEAF Seed Grant, we built a partnership with the Toronto Zoo’s Nutrition Science team by co-creating community-engaged learning and research opportunities within and beyond a […]
- EPIC Forestry – Experiential Learning in Forest Conservation
- EPIC Forestry was a pilot program to develop and deliver a new undergraduate field course (FOR301: Field Methods in Forest Conservation) that blends knowledge of conservation science with hands-on experiential […]
- Canada Constructed: Architecture, Landscape, History
- The purpose of the initiative was to transform teaching and learning about the Canadian built environment through a cluster of new courses at various curricular levels in the Department of […]
- Reimagining computer science education through digital storytelling with tangible objects
- Instructors in computer science (CS) often adopt mathematical abstractions and entities when explaining concepts. As the academic preparation of learners has become more diverse, the low retention rate of students […]
- Design Research Internship Project (DRIP)
- The Design Research Internship Project (DRIP) is a curricular initiative that is designed to provide undergraduate students with a critical educational experience outside the classroom/studio while continuing to call on […]
- Interdisciplinary Curriculum Alignment and Pedagogical Collaboration Through Communities of Practice and Learning
- Our project aimed to bring the three disciplines of our department – Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics closer together in terms of curriculum and pedagogy. By comparing detailed curriculum maps […]
- Digital Tools for Enhanced Music Pedagogy: Creating, Developing, and Implementing Online Learning Modules for Music & Culture
- This project supported the creation, development, and implementation of digital learning modules for the A-level course “Foundations in Musicianship,” which is a prerequisite to virtually all courses in the UTSC […]
- Revamping a first-year writing course curriculum (English A02) – The Peer Support Model as a path to student academic success, resilience, and well-being
- This two-year LEAF project entails a robust, embedded mental health, accessibility, community building, and academic peer support system in each of the 13/15 sections of English A02—a multi-sectional, first-year, English […]
- Scaffolding Computation and Data Science Throughout the Chemistry Curriculum
- Over a three-year period, we developed and integrated computing and data science (CDS) materials into five chemistry courses: a large-enrollment first-year life science course (CHM135H1); a first-year course for physical […]
- Quantitative Skills using R in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Quantitative skills (statistics, mathematics, and computing) are essential parts of an academic and professional portfolio across ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB). Quantitative Reasoning is also identified as one of five […]