Stories: Experiential Learning
April 11, 2024
Custom Fit: Creating AI-Powered Exoskeletons for Individual Mobility Needs
Custom Fit: Creating AI-Powered Exoskeletons for Individual Mobility Needs
Carleton University researcher Mojtaba Ahmadi is designing advanced exoskeletons — wearable robotic devices powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
January 23, 2024
Experiential Learning at Carleton: Equipping Tomorrow’s Leaders with Real-World Skills
Experiential Learning at Carleton: Equipping Tomorrow’s Leaders with Real-World Skills
Carleton University is at the forefront of embracing experiential learning, recognizing its vital role in shaping well-rounded and competent graduates. Through a commitment to hands-on experiences such as co-op programs, extra-curriculars, travel opportunities, and multi-disciplinary... More
February 17, 2023
Future Learning Lab Brings Immersive Environments to Carleton University
Future Learning Lab Brings Immersive Environments to Carleton University
On Feb. 10, Carleton University officially launched its Future Learning Lab, a 34,000 square foot space that will uniquely benefit students through hands-on experiences with augmented and virtual realities and will enhance Carleton's leadership in... More
March 4, 2022
Student-Designed Digital Platform Aims to Inspire Girls to Enter STEM
Student-Designed Digital Platform Aims to Inspire Girls to Enter STEM
What do a graduate computer science student and an undergraduate economics student have in common? The desire to close the gender gap in STEM. Coming from two different fields and stages in their academic careers,... More
December 20, 2019
Learning in the Field: Extensive Arts and Social Sciences Opportunities
Learning in the Field: Extensive Arts and Social Sciences Opportunities
From observing the inner sanctums of the military and RCMP or making an impact on local communities to conducting archaeological digs continents away, there are myriad practical ways Carleton University students in the Faculty of... More
March 27, 2019
A Showcase of Accessible Experiential Learning
A Showcase of Accessible Experiential Learning
During her second year at Carleton University in Engineering Physics, Stephanie Ellis began to lose her sight and went completely blind. Although she slowly got her vision back, no one was ever able to figure... More
January 30, 2019
Lessons from a Changing EU
Lessons from a Changing EU
The French have taken to the streets, and the British are taking to the exits. The great dream of a unified Europe has endured from the time of Charlemagne to the era of Macron, May... More
November 22, 2018
Experiential Learning in Belize
Experiential Learning in Belize
In 2015, after two decades of legal battles, an unprecedented Caribbean Court of Justice ruling reinforced property rights of the Maya people of Belize, enshrining their system of customary land tenure within the country’s constitution... More
October 30, 2018
Learning Through Experience
Learning Through Experience
When Tayler Hernandez chose Carleton University for its unique Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS) program, she knew she was in for an experience of a lifetime. Leaving North America for the first time,... More
October 15, 2018
Journalism Students Expand Their Narrative with Stories North
Journalism Students Expand Their Narrative with Stories North
Madeline Lines, a fourth-year Journalism student at Carleton University, knows the golden rule of her craft like the back of her hand. "Objectivity, objectivity, objectivity." That's by no means a bad thing — with mistrust... More
October 1, 2018
International Internship Program Takes Students Across the Globe
International Internship Program Takes Students Across the Globe
Maheep Sandhu was preparing for the final day of his summer job before he returned for his third year in Carleton University's Global and International Studies (BGInS). But he hasn't spent the summer working at... More
March 2, 2018
The World is their Classroom
The World is their Classroom
Tayler Hernandez left North America for the first time in her life and headed to Uganda to fulfill her international experience requirement as a student in the Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS), a... More