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University education is not just a collection of a number of courses that a student puts
together and then that becomes his or her degree.
University education is a lot more complex. It's a lot deeper. University education brings
all kinds of different ingredients to interact with each other.
And it depends on the individual how they allow those interactions to take place.
We do a lot more internships where students spend part of their education out in the workplace
and getting experience as part of their degree.
We see a lot more community engaged learning where students are matched with not-for-profit
agencies. They're out again in the field and getting academic credit.
We're seeing more students take advantage of international opportunities.
We're very committed to what might be called experiential learning. We invest and continue
to invest in work. And having the students learn by doing.
We are exploring many differnt pedagogical models whether it's the foundation year, like
many other schools do in Canada. Block teaching formats like several other schools do in Canada
and certainly in the United states as well.
So that students and their professors and their instructors can explore learning and
teaching in many different ways. In contexts that should be relevant to the World in which
we live.
So you're seeing a lot more variety in terms of what students can do to create a very unique
learning experience for them.
Which gives them skills and opportunities to build knowledge in their discipline.
But mix that with very practical knowledge and skills that are really going to help them
hit the ground running when they graduate.