Are you interested in bringing experiential learning into your courses? Would you like to find new industry partners for an existing experiential course or capstone?

Applied Research & Innovation is piloting Riipen, a new tool to make it easier for educators to embed industry projects and live case studies directly in curriculum.

We invite you to join a workshop on May 13 to learn about this new project-based experiential learning resource. During this session, you'll find out how you can make courses in your specific subject area experiential and get immediate support to connect your students with course-aligned projects from companies and nonprofits. By the end of the session, you will learn have learned:

• How to join Riipen, Humber’s new online project-based experiential learning ecosystem
• How to easily design an experiential assignment or capstone for your students using this resource
• How to connect with employers who can provide your students with curriculum-aligned projects

Please bring your laptop so you can follow along and create a project-based experience with our support.

If you cannot attend, but are interested in learning more, please connect with Amanda Brown, Partnership Development Manager, at amanda.brown@humber.ca.

Register here

On Saturday, May 11, University of Guelph-Humber will host a free, interactive, all ages science festival as part of the annual Science Rendezvous, taking place across Canada.

Science Rendezvous is an annual event that gets science into the local communities thanks to partners like the University of Guelph-Humber. Festival goers get a chance to participate in hands-on experiments and see amazing scientific demonstrations.

At the University of Guelph-Humber, student volunteers will lead activities including anatomy, neuroscience, health & fitness, new technology and forensic science. Attendees will have the chance to look at muscles, fat, the brain, heart and the lungs; assess fitness levels through interactive exercises; learn more about facial recognition, try out virtual reality and even explore a crime scene.

More than 300 Science Rendezvous festival events are taking place simultaneously in 30 cities across Canada on May 11.

For more information please click here.

On Tuesday, April 23, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., please plan to join Laurie Rancourt, Senior Vice-President, Academic as she presents the Case for Change webinar. This presentation will outline the current and ongoing academic transformation occurring at Humber.

Please access the Wednesday, May 8 session here. The Friday, May 10 session can be accessed here.

At the end of the webinar, we will be taking questions using Microsoft Forms. If you have a question or feedback for Laurie about the presentation, please submit it here. You may begin submitting questions once the webinar begins.

You may need to log in to Office 365. To do so, enter your id number@humber.ca. This should then take you to another login where you will be prompted to enter you regular login and password.  

From there you should see an area called Case for Change – Support Staff.  In the space provided, type in your question and then click on the submit button. The moderator of the webinar will receive the question, and then provide it to Laurie during the webinar. Please keep your questions focused on the material covered during the webinar. Depending on the number of questions, we may not be able to get to all of them during the webinar. 

You can also ask questions by submitting them to the Support Staff Union in advance of the session.

If you are unable to attend the April 23 session, additional webinars will be held on Wednesday, May 8 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Friday, May 10 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Please let your manager know in advance if you are interested in participating any of these sessions.

The webinars will be recorded should you wish to watch at a later date.

If you experience any technical difficulties such as logging into the webinar or accessing Microsoft Forms, please contact jason.mccourt@humber.ca.

We look forward to seeing you online and to updating you on the many exciting things happening within the Humber’s Academic Division.

The goal of the Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO) project is to identify the core skills and competencies that all Humber students will possess and be able to demonstrate upon graduation. Our ILOs will support our graduates to be competitive and resourceful and to inspire change in their workplaces and communities, demonstrating the unique value of a Humber education.

Join VP Academic, Laurie Rancourt, at the Lakeshore Campus to discuss Humber's ILO project. Learn about the development of the ILO framework and participate in a dialogue about what it can mean at the course and program level.

Register here