Launching Forward: Using the SDGs to innovately engage students in study and work abroad opportunities
Seneca utilized this project as an innovative approach to widen access and equity of participation in outbound student mobility programming. This project was the first time that Seneca: i) purposefully engaged students from underrepresented target groups through First People’s at Seneca and Accessibility and Counselling Services; ii) built new partnerships with Canadian NGOs that offer […]
Global Learning for All – COIL
With disruption comes the need to innovate. Using the innovation fund, 17 Seneca faculty and 16 faculty from partner schools around the world were trained on an innovative virtual mobility model called COIL: Collaborative Online International Learning. The training led to the creation of 16 virtual collaborations across various disciplines, which will be implemented in […]
Indigenous Knowledge promoting Intercultural Understanding, Empathy and Mutual Respect: A Video Series
In broad terms, we want to produce the first of a series of videos of Indigenous elders answering questions from students (of all backgrounds) about Indigenous traditions, world views, health care, history and any other questions that are on their minds. The students use their phones to video themselves asking the question or telling us […]
A 2021 Global Competency Framework for TVET Students
As with many Colleges, semester exchanges abroad are challenging to insert into many of Niagara College’s programs given the shorter duration of a diploma and post-graduate program. Therefore, semester exchanges can be complicated for College level students. Additionally, as many students are working while studying, extensive advance notice to prepare students for their exchange supports […]
International Experiences in Information Technology and Transportation at Red River College
In winter 2021, students from the Business Information Technology Program at RRC in Winnipeg worked on a virtual industry project with students in Computer Engineering from the Federal Institute of Ceara (IFCE) in Brazil. The goal was for the students to gain IT experience in an international context and to further develop their cross-cultural communication […]
Global Citizenship Bootcamp Pilot Program
The NorQuest College Global Citizenship Bootcamp is a 15-hour course designed to enhance intercultural knowledge, sharpen cross-cultural communication skills, and prepare learners to study and work abroad. The course offers a series of workshops and guest speakers that, within the context of diversity, promote global exposure and understanding of systemic barriers which underrepresented populations may […]
Virtual International Lecture Series for SAIT Diagnostic Imaging Programs
The project saw consultant radiographers from the UK present on a virtual platform to SAIT Diagnostic Imaging students and faculty. These UK radiographers delivered virtual sessions for students with sessions geared toward general radiography and computed tomography imaging and reporting. The sessions allowed advanced care practioners from the UK to educate students to a different […]
Breaking out of the box: A non traditional decolonized toolkit for international study abroad and intercultural exchange.
This project tests a brand-new, decolonized approach to recruiting and preparing Indigenous and under-represented low-income visible minority students for a culturally relevant, industry focused, study abroad experience in Japan. It takes an integrative, thematic approach to increase the participation of targeted students through the cultural relevancy of the topic, a decolonized, asynchronous pedagogy and a […]
Canada’s West Coast Fishery: Indigeneity and Japanese Trans-pacific migration
This project explores the practice of diverse means of cultural introspection as unconventional approaches to intercultural learning. Specifically, it examines the use of stories, cultural autobiographies, and metaphoric expression such as creative journaling, as alternatives to euro-centric intercultural competence development methods. It proposes that Faculty and student who participate in an international experience e.g. field […]
Preparing a Go Global Culture at Northern Lights College
The project set a foundation for the creation of an inclusive study abroad program at NLC. As a rural college, with high levels of first generation, low-income, and indigenous students, NLC does not have a track record of study abroad. NLC has identified the development of study abroad as a top priority, and NLC needs […]