{"id":997,"date":"2023-07-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/?p=997"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:32:26","slug":"dr-ali-arya-named-a-recipient-of-the-2023-ocufa-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/2023\/dr-ali-arya-named-a-recipient-of-the-2023-ocufa-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ali Arya Named a Recipient of The 2023 OCUFA Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Dr. Ali Arya Named a Recipient of The 2023 OCUFA Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">July 26th, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/News-20230726-Dr.-Ali-Arya-Named-a-Recipient-of-The-2023-OCUFA-Award-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"News 20230726 - Dr. Ali Arya Named a Recipient of The 2023 OCUFA Award\" class=\"wp-image-1003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/News-20230726-Dr.-Ali-Arya-Named-a-Recipient-of-The-2023-OCUFA-Award-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/News-20230726-Dr.-Ali-Arya-Named-a-Recipient-of-The-2023-OCUFA-Award-512x512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/News-20230726-Dr.-Ali-Arya-Named-a-Recipient-of-The-2023-OCUFA-Award-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/News-20230726-Dr.-Ali-Arya-Named-a-Recipient-of-The-2023-OCUFA-Award-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/News-20230726-Dr.-Ali-Arya-Named-a-Recipient-of-The-2023-OCUFA-Award-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/News-20230726-Dr.-Ali-Arya-Named-a-Recipient-of-The-2023-OCUFA-Award-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/News-20230726-Dr.-Ali-Arya-Named-a-Recipient-of-The-2023-OCUFA-Award-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/News-20230726-Dr.-Ali-Arya-Named-a-Recipient-of-The-2023-OCUFA-Award.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Ali Arya has been named a recipient of the 2023 Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching Award \u2013 the highest honour an educator can receive in the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Arya incorporates technology into many of his teaching and learning innovations at Carleton, including the use of VR and 3D environments, gamification and game-based learning, and an exploration-based pedagogy using emergent technologies. Arya has also innovated by incorporating various methods of student engagement such as reflective activities into his educational practice in STEM disciplines and has significantly contributed to the curriculum as the Associate Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Information Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/grp3Qzex\">Link to Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 26th, 2023 Dr. Ali Arya has been named a recipient of the 2023 Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching Award \u2013 the highest honour an educator can receive in the province. Dr. Arya incorporates technology into many of his teaching and learning innovations at Carleton, including the use of VR and 3D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":1003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}