Faculty Members Showcase
Enhance your teaching with hands-on experiences: Virtual reality training for paramedics
While you can learn a lot in the classroom, it is real-life experience that solidifies what you have learned and prepares you to use it in the workforce. And if what faculty are teaching is dangerous, it can be a challenge to get that experience–a challenge the COI Network can help faculty overcome. Humber’s Teaching and Learning department worked with the CCBI to do just that for paramedic students. Working with faculty members and students in Media Studies and Information Technology, the CCBI developed a realistic, virtual reality simulation of the aftermath of a bomb explosion. The virtual reality environment fully immerses paramedic students in a high-stress, high-risk situation, and measures their skill and biometric reactions as they medically assess a patient.
Resources for your classroom: Capstone projects
For many Humber students, a capstone project in their final year is their chance to integrate and apply the skills and knowledge they have learned in the classroom to a real-world project. An increasing number of students are now working on their capstone projects in partnership with the COI Network. We can work with faculty members and students to design an incredible capstone project, sharing the load on consultation and helping faculty members evaluate the project. Last year, The COI Network worked on more than 650 capstone projects with students from Humber’s six academic Faculties.
Tackle challenging community problems: Affordable housing in South Etobicoke research project
While the unaffordability of housing in Toronto is not a new problem, it remains an important and complex one. Humber faculty member Salomeh Ahmadi is addressing part of the challenge by looking at how to make housing more affordable in Humber’s local community in South Etobicoke. Supported by Humber’s Community & College Social Innovation Fund (CCSIF), Ahmadi and her team are investigating cost-of-living issues and how to advocate for more affordable housing. Working with community partners like the LAMP Community Health Centre, the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation, Lakeshore Affordable Housing Advocacy and Action Group, and Mimico Lakeshore Community Network, Professor Ahmadi’s work is already beginning to make an impact. Her team has hosted community workshops, formed an advisory group, and inspired a new push for investments that will benefit the community to be part of new housing developments.
