SoTL Projects

Faculty/Department Acronyms

• Faculty of Applied Sciences & Technology (FAST)

• Faculty of Business (FB)

• Faculty of Health Sciences & Wellness (FHSW)

• Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning (FLA)

• Faculty of Media & Creative Arts (FMCA)

• Faculty of Social & Community Services (FSCS)

• Office of Research & Innovation (ORI)

• Student Success & Engagement (SSE)

SoTL Projects

Have a look at the breadth and depth of SoTL projects initiated this fiscal year (April to November 2021)

PROJECT TITLE: Course Syllabi Design and Learning/ Engagement

Principal Investigator: Jennifer Ball

Faculty: FLA

Project summary: The Investigator will work with a professional graphic recorder to design and deploy a hand-drawn “live” digital mind-map model of the course syllabus for a new course, GGRN 100: Foundations of Sustainability. Images on this syllabus can be hyperlinked to the free (open-access or Humber Library hosted) resources and to the bios of guest speakers. Most importantly, this re-designed course syllabus would visually depict the purpose and relationships of the unit topics and reading, watching, and listening materials. As a result, the Investigator predicts that they will observe a greater engagement with the course syllabus. They would also like to know if the graphic syllabus draws attention to the course/program in the sense that students may share it with others outside of the course/program.

PROJECT TITLE: Cross Discipline Co-creating Virtual Reality Space Exploration

Principal Investigator: David Neumann

Faculty: FMCA

Co-Investigators: Ahmed Raza Sagarwala, Rossie Kadiyska

Project summary: The Investigators will explore the process to integrate a co-creative, collaborative multiprogram VR design flow process at Humber. Students from multiple programs will work together on a co-created VR project, alongside their instructor who will provide feedback and evaluation in VR.

PROJECT TITLE: Development of a New Change Management/Change Leadership Methodology and Framework (Phase 1)

Principal Investigator: Raeshelle Morris

Faculty: ORI

Co-Investigators: Cheryl Francis-Nurse, Dilash Krishnapillai

Project summary: In today’s world, companies that can adapt and thrive in change are more successful. Humber is planning to develop its Change Leadership Methodology and Framework, which it would first integrate with initiatives offered by the Office of Research & Innovation (ORI), as part of their Innovation Training Offering. This will be incorporated with the PMPG Simulation Tool to support Humber’s academic programs and finally recommended to industry through corporate training. A team of Project Management post graduate program (PMPG) students have been identified as part of the Alternative Capstone Project to undertake this research in the Fall of 2021. The students would be involved in primary and secondary research of existing change models and would be working closely with subject matter experts, faculty, research assistants, and members of ORI and PMPG departments to develop a new model, which can be used as a learning tool at Humber and later be leveraged by industry.

PROJECT TITLE: Incorporating Praxis into Child and Youth Care Post-Secondary Education

Principal Investigator: Melanie Zuzarte

Faculty: FSCS

Project summary: In Phase 1, the Investigator will gather data from Humber College Child and Youth Care students which will illustrate, using a humanistic lens, to Child and Youth Care Educators, how students would like to experience elements of care in the classroom. In Phase 2, Child and Youth Care Educators may propose pedagogical strategies when weaving in elements of care into praxis within the learning life-spaces which in turn may inspire Child and Youth Care students’ future clinical practice. The Investigator will analyze the data informed by Humber College Child and Youth Care students and Child and Youth Care Educators lived academic experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and curate pedagogical strategies within the form of “Care Workbook” deliverable for Child and Youth Care Educators academic practice.

PROJECT TITLE: Incorporation of Emerging Technologies into the Classroom

Principal Investigator: David Neumann

Faculty: FMCA

Project summary: The investigators are exploring the process, technology requirements, and pedagogical considerations needed to sustainably incorporate emerging technologies such as augmented and virtual reality into the curriculum. Through “proof of process” multi-disciplinary research projects they can bring a team of industry stakeholders, students, and faculty from different disciplines together and create a small project that investigates a specific potential opportunity for emerging technology to be incorporated into the curriculum within 1-2 terms. The project’s success is measured based on the insights gathered about the challenges and opportunities a specific technology may bring to student learning. Most projects have multiple phases with workshops, faculty professional development, and other opportunities for staff, students, and faculty to engage with the project process as well.

PROJECT TITLE: Leading from the future: Sustainable denim—local live case study in sustainable fashion (Phase 5)

Principal Investigator: Rossie Kadiyska

Faculty: FBCo-Investigator: Vladimira Steffek, PhD.

Project summary: The Investigator’s goal is to develop a case collection of fashion innovation and sustainability inspired by the work of local Humber alumni. This phase of the project will be the fourth case with a focus on fashion retail post-COVID. With more cases being written and published, they aim to create a course that relies on these case studies—thus making Education for Sustainability a part of the current curriculum.

PROJECT TITLE: The Importance and Impact of Mentorship in Higher Education

Principal Investigator: Anisha Jahagirdar

Faculty: SSECo-Investigators: Joanne Cerdan, Mahfam Nikoo

Project summary: The Investigators are interested in what role mentorship plays for students as they transition into higher education, specifically into a college environment. Furthermore, they would like to understand how are mentors and mentees impacted by the social, emotional, and academic aspects of this experience. Students who participated in the First Year Experience mentorship program during the 2020-21 year, either as a mentor or a mentee, will be invited to participate in interviews to discuss their experience in the program.

PROJECT TITLE: Two-Eyed Land-Based Play and Co-Learning

Principal Investigator: Louise ZimanyiFaculty: FHSW

Co-Investigators: Lynn Short, Bora Kim and Lyndsay MacDonald

Project summary: The Investigators will explore how a new course in Two-Eyed Land-Based Play and Co-Learning (ECE 234) engages and impacts the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical realities of the learner and faculty. ECE 234 is a culturally focused landbased course informed and shaped by the traditional territories and lands that Humber College is located on and the work of Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall. Marshall’s pedagogical approach of Two-Eyed Seeing, or education that balances both Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of knowing, requires research participation from both the dominant and Indigenous societies to assure research validity that honours both perspectives. To that end, the Investigators will be working with an Indigenous partner, the Maamaawisiiwin Education Research Centre (MERC). Through the use of pre and post surveys as well as focus groups, both students and the faculty teaching the course will have the opportunity to voice their experiences.

PROJECT TITLE: Virtual Reality Applications in Mechanical Maintenance Lab

Principal Investigator: Reza Madjlesi

Faculty: FAST

Project summary: The Investigator will convert a lab session of the industrial maintenance lab into virtual reality. Students in the lab will scan a QR-code on a gearbox and will see the internal parts of the gearbox on the screen of their smartphones. Students can move around the internal parts and look at exploded views of the parts. Hot spots will be added to the VR presentation of the gearbox. Students will get detailed info on the type of bearing and the way to find replacement bearings for the gearbox through a session that combines virtual reality with PDF files and videos.