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Below you will find information and resources for instructors who wish to teach this course or adapt it for their own needs.
Welcome Instructors and Program Coordinators!
We are pleased you have found our course.
This course was developed thanks to funding by the Government of Ontario and through eCampusOntario's support of the Virtual Learning Strategy. The course was created under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA) license, specific license details below, which means you're welcome to reuse and remix this course for other educational purposes! Although we developed each module as building blocks for the entire course, many of the skill development modules could easily be taken as standalone pieces with some minor editing.
We hope you enjoy exploring the course content and find something useful for your own curriculum needs. We would love to speak to you about adapting this project. For all inquiries about the project, please email us at asip@utoronto.ca
The ASIP Team
Course Overview
This course was developed by the Arts & Science Internship Program (ASIP) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Toronto. ASIP combines 12 to 20 months of paid work experience with specialized professional development training. Students complete this course during their second work term (8-16 months). Our priority was to provide an opportunity for ASIP students to further develop in-demand transferrable skills relevant to their work term and future career.
The course teaches students about the importance of workplace innovation to an employee and how they can best leverage it to support their career growth. The course is completed while students are on work term and follows a year-long industry-partnered course, "Ideation and Planning Skills for Employment Success" comprising 12 skill-development modules (also developed under a CC-BY-NC-SA license; click here to access it).
Please refer to the instructor guide below for further details about the project.
The content in this module has been adapted from an open educational resource, Workplace Innovation (Baregheh & Carey, 2022) Links to an external site., published through eCampusOntario's Open Library. We have worked closely with the authors, Thomas Carey and Anahita Baregheh, to adapt their content and would like to express our sincere appreciation for their support, collaboration, and guidance on this project.
Instructor Guide
This Instructor Guide PDF Download Instructor Guide PDF contains full details about the project, including the project background, how to download and edit content, accessibility features, attribution licenses for all multimedia content, etc.
Image Attribution
Images used in our courses were retrieved from stock image libraries such as Adobe Stock (Standard License) and Shutterstock (Standard Image License); designed using the Bitmoji platform; provided by our industry partner; or created by our multimedia development and instructional design team. For details about the source of each image, refer to the ASIP Image Attribution Table PDF Download ASIP Image Attribution Table PDF document. Course imagery that has not been created by ASIP represents exclusions to the Creative Commons license applied to this project. The terms and conditions of the original license applies to these images.
Industry Insights
To ensure our curriculum was connected to real-industry experience, we reached out to professionals working in a wide variety of areas to ask them about their experience as it relates to all of the module topics. We also surveyed our own students about their work term experience. Throughout the modules, you will find quotes from their survey responses. Further details about the industry insights can be found in the instructor guide, including attribution instructions. You can download the raw survey data here (XLSX). Download You can download the raw survey data here (XLSX).
Personas
Throughout the course we mention five "personas" - fictional characters who are ASIP students from different departments. We created a story for each persona character. To read the summary of each persona's bio, click here for Persona Bios Summary PDF Download click here for Persona Bios Summary PDF.
Persona bitmoji images were created on https://www.bitmoji.com/ Links to an external site. and are subject to the Snap Group Limited Terms of Service Links to an external site..
License Information & Funding Acknowledgement
All modules created for Workplace Innovation Skills for Employment Success by the Arts & Science Internship Program (Office of Experiential Learning & Outreach Support, Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Links to an external site., except where otherwise noted. Portions of the material were adapted (by permission of the authors) from the Workplace Innovation Links to an external site. resource in the eCampusOntario Open Library Links to an external site., authored by Anahita Baregheh and Thomas Carey [OCL-ND 1.0 Links to an external site. license].
This project is made possible with funding by the Government of Ontario and through eCampusOntario’s support of the Virtual Learning Strategy. To learn more about the Virtual Learning Strategy visit: https://vls.ecampusontario.ca Links to an external site..