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Strategic Directions

Strategic Directions

NEXT-GENERATION LEARNING

Our project will test new ways to address the changing needs and expectations of future students.

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Contemporary students need learning opportunities that are more inclusive, flexible, experiential, skill-oriented, mobility-enabling and lifelong. They also want learning opportunities that allow them to work creatively and collaboratively on our society’s most complex challenges. The pilots and experiments in this project will help us provide these opportunities and achieve our strategic direction to “teach for tomorrow.”

Projects

Inclusive Teaching

New opportunities for faculty to hone their skills in handling contentious social issues in class, engaging racial and gender diversity, indigenizing courses and curriculum, and utilizing Universal Design for Learning. And efforts to better ensure inclusive access to the opportunities afford by higher learning regardless of age, gender, sexuality, disability, socioeconomic status, ethnic or religious background, etc.

Wicked Problem Courses

Wicked problems are highly complex societal challenges where there is little consensus around the nature of the problem; where causes, effects, and interdependencies are difficult to disentangle; and where existing methods, processes and policies to address the problem have proven inadequate. Wicked problems, by their very nature, need to be understood and addressed from the perspective of multiple disciplines, and with collaboration between multiple stakeholders.

Upcoming projects

Courses, workshops, and other learning offerings that provide students with ways to develop and demonstrate in-demand skills that will help them find meaningful work and advance professionally

Program formats that provide students with flexible access to Concordia’s learning opportunities with less dependency on their physical location.

Linkages between Concordia programs and faculty and those of other universities, providing students and faculty with networking and mobility opportunities.

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