Future Learning Innovation Fellowship Fund Recipients

2025-26

• Manjeet Birk (Feminist Institute of Social Transformation). Project: Integration of the virtual reality film Home and supporting students in creating their own digital stories to serve as tools for resistance and as a way to interact with Critical Race Studies.
• Mehdi Eshaghi (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Project: Implementing a virtual reality pre-lab module to prepare students for Fluid Mechanics labs.
• Eva Kartchava (School of Linguistics and Language Studies). Project: Utilizing Ovation virtual reality to create corrective feedback scenarios for TESL trainees.
• Lama Mourad (Norman Paterson School of International Affairs). Project: Expanding an AI-assisted negotiation simulation into a fully immersive, narrative-based learning environment in the Global Social Policy class..
• Mike Murphy (School of Linguistics and Language Studies). Project: Creating personal digital memoirs using StoryTrek or Kaltura in the ESL classroom.
• Jesse Stewart (School for Studies in Art and Culture – Music). Project: Using immersive digital storytelling to reveal the decision-making within collaborative, intercultural improvisation. 

2024-25

• Kevin Cheung (School of Mathematics and Statistics). Project: Using generative AI to help student engage in more complex mathematical work.
• Rick Colbourne (Sprott School of Business). Project: Exploring how AI can enhance creativity and engagement in entrepreneurship education.
• Vicky McArthur (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Developing subject-agnostic modules to enhance students’ critical engagement with AI and digital literacy.
• Brenda Morris (School of Social Work). Project: Exploring how generative AI can enhance social work education by preparing students for evolving digital practice environments.
• Brian Strong (School of Linguistics and Language Studies). Project:  Integrating the AI-based Classroom Teaching Simulator (ACTS).

2023-24

• Scott Bucking (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Using Artificial Intelligence in the classroom.
• Katie Lucas (Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science). Project:  Increasing retention by taking an active learning approach and focusing on inclusive teaching practices.
• Jennifer Drake (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Exploring the use of virtual reality field trips and augmented reality models of inaccessible underground municipal infrastructure (drinking water distribution, storm sewers, etc.) to allow civil engineering students to learn through directly experiencing and engaging with these systems.
• Stefania Maggi (Childhood and Youth Studies/Department of Psychology). Project: Developing a course on eco-anxiety using the EON-XR platform.
• Rose Gomar (Department of Systems and Computer Engineering). Project:  Using learning analytic to enhance the educational experience for all students.
• Martha Mullally (Department of Biology). Project: Further developing a previously piloted immersive virtual reality (IVR) simulation.
• Katie Graham (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Using interactive video and reading documents with online self and peer reviews of weekly assignments to improve student engagement.
• Steven Pong (School of Industrial Design). Project: Using Augmented and Virtual Reality to elevate industrial design education.
• Antonio Llaca Buznego (School for Studies in Art and Culture – Music). Project:  Balancing traditional teaching methods with the use of MatchMySound — an online application using sound recognition technology — to provide instructor-guided weekly recorded assignments to enhance the acquisition of aural skills and performance.
• Mira Sucharov (Department of Political Science). Project: Exploring the limitations of ChatGPT in providing informed opinions in  an Israeli-Palestinian relations course.

2022-23

• Omair Shafiq (School of Information Technology). Project: Developing an analytics process in Brightspace to foster collaboration in group work.
• Ahmed Hassan (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Exploring the Assign2 software to assist in grading of student work, including handwritten work submitted online.
• Robert Collier & Connor Hillen (School of Computer Science). Project: Re-designing assessments to limit the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools that are potentially in use by some students.
• Kyle Harvey (School of Mathematics and Statistics). Project: Exploring the Crowdmark software to assist in grading of student work and exams, including handwritten work submitted online.
• Douglas Howe (School of Computer Science). Project: Creation of an autograder tool for assessing programming assignments and exploring the Gradescope software to manage assignments.
• Elisabeth Gilmore (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Exploring Feedback Fruits software to support peer feedback activities.
• Deanna Whelan (Department of Psychology). Project: Exploring Feedback Fruits software to support peer assessment and peer-feedback activities.
• Ali Arya (School of Information Technology). Project: Exploring the use of Virtual Reality in STEM courses
• Peter Coffman (School for Studies in Art and Culture – Art and Architectural History). Project: Use of a 360 degree camera to assist in creation of virtual tours for a new course on Canadian architecture that will explore how our buildings across history and geography interact with issues such as climate, power, heritage, and labour.
• Jim Davies (Department of Cognitive Science). Project: Design and development of a 3D Virtual Reality model to assist in enhancing the learning brain areas including their names, location and function.
• Brian Greenspan (Department of English). Project: Development of Augmented Reality (AR) storytelling workshops to support students in their work when they create AR stories.
• Leonard MacEachern (Department of Electronics). Project: Development of a 3D scanner to support creation of 3D models for use in VR/AR/XR applications.
• Vincent Andrisani (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Onboarding of student partners to produce and maintain a radio show and podcast called ‘The Place of Sound’ as a platform for sharing the work produced students in this fourth-year workshop course.