ABOUT THE NEXT-GENERATION LEARNING PROJECT

Concordia’s Strategic Directions articulate the aspiration for us to deliver a next-generation education that’s connected, transformative, and fit for the times. This projects aims to launch a handful of experiments and pilots that help us to realize this aspiration by exploring new ways to address the changing needs and expectations of future students.

This project understands contemporary students as needing and expecting:

• more compact, modular, personalized, and immediately available learning opportunities;
• high-impact forms of experiential, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary learning that integrate practical experience;
• more deliberate and integrated forms of professional skill development;
• increased opportunities for international mobility and network-building; and
  
• compelling new kinds of lifelong learning.
   

This project builds on previous investments in teaching and learning innovation including the Curriculum Innovation Fund and the on-boarding of four curriculum developers, including one focused specifically on Indigenous issues.

In addition to new learning offerings, the Next-Generation Learning Project will pilot additional forms of support for faculty professional development and collaboration. These capacity-building offerings will be organized by the Centre for Teaching and Learning.

Project Team Members

• Sandra Gabriele, Vice-Provost of Innovation in Teaching and Learning and overall project lead
• Nadia Bhuiyan, Vice-Provost of Partnerships and Experiential Learning and wicked problem course lead
• Anne-Marie Croteau, Dean of the John Molson School of Business and international opportunities co-lead
• Paula Wood-Adams, Dean of Graduate Studies and international opportunities co-lead
• Isabel Dunnigan, Associate Vice-President, Professional Education and Valorisation du français
• Lisa Ostiguy, Special Advisor to the Provost, Campus Life and Supports, and participant
• Rob Cassidy, Executive Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning and participant
• Jason Ens, Executive Director of Academic Policy, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, and project planner
• Laura Cridge, Project Coordinator