Fanshawe College, Ontario, is one of the largest colleges in Canada. It serves 43,000 students across multiple campuses with over 220 degrees, diplomas, certificates, and apprenticeships.
Their mission lies in a promise to educate, engage, empower, and excite students. They approached Bodyswaps because they saw it as a solution that could provide essential skills for students, no matter their academic path
The team found that Bodyswaps’ EDI modules were particularly helpful for students who speak English as a second language as it empowered them to better understand nuances of communication, cultural difference, and appropriate language in professional settings, that might be different in another language.
Enlisting the help of marketing students to create promotional content about Bodyswaps, including a trailer, helped them spread the word about their deployment across the college.
Fanshawe’s Developmental Services Worker program trains students to work with individuals
with developmental disabilities. DSW students were frequent users of Bodyswaps, finding value in the variety of communication skills training they could engage in.