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Student Success: One Student at a Time

By Jacqueline Beaulieu, Student Co-Leader, Integrated Learning Experience Domain

On October 5^th, members of the Innovation Hub’s Domain and Operations Teams attended a training day where we learned about design thinking for innovation from Nogah Kornberg of the I-Think Initiative at the Rotman School of Management.

You might be wondering: what is design thinking exactly? It is all about developing innovations that respond to real people’s needs. As the Innovation Hub seeks to understand and respond to the unique needs of UofT’s students, design thinking is a method we are utilizing to learn more about students and develop innovations that provide further support.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship – A Place to Start

By Carey Toane, UofT’s Entrepreneurship Librarian & Innovation Hub Ambassador

I hear a lot about innovation in my work. As entrepreneurship librarian at U of T, I work with startups on campus, whether they are taking a course, or enrolled in one of nine campus linked accelerators, or commercializing their graduate research, or working away in stealth mode in their dorms. These students are highly motivated, taking on the “drinking from a firehose” experience of starting a company on top of regular studies and other responsibilities. It’s incredibly inspiring to hear about their ideas and help them find information to support their pitch decks.

Empathy & Design

By Julia Smeed, Innovation Hub Project Lead In order to realize the Innovation Hub vision to create a seamless student experience for at the University of Toronto, we must gain a deeper understanding about the current student experience. One way that…

Celebrating Failure

By Julia Smeed, Innovation Hub Project Lead

The University of Toronto is home to some of Canada’s most famous research, discoveries and inventions. It’s important to remember, however, that these successes were often preceded by many failures. The Innovation Hub seeks to create a culture where failure is allowed, and even encouraged in the creative process. Our failures spark curiosity and allow us to learn. Failure propels us towards innovation!

There are so many great reasons to fail! Just take the advice of businessman, engineer & inventor Elon Musk:

Resources from Day of Learning

Check out our Google Drive folder for more details about the Day of Learning and a collection of some of the presentations.

The Shopping Cart of The Future…

IDEO is a global design firm that takes a human-centered approach to designing products and services. They even designed the first computer mouse for Apple in 1980! While this video is dated, it’s a great way to see the IDEO…

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