Our annual Open Pedagogy Fellowship provides support for faculty to design "renewable
assignments," authentic assessments that help students become agents of change in
their communities. The assignments are collaboratively developed by multi-disciplinary
teams across three institutions-KPU, Montgomery College (Maryland, USA), and Maricopa
Community Colleges (Arizona, USA). The conceptual framework on which this fellowship is
based is the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals<https://en.unesco.org/sdgs> (UN SDGs), which is a set of 17 goals that address
a wide range of social issues, such as poverty, inequality, climate change, and peace and
justice. The faculty teams design their course assignments over the summer and deploy them
over the following academic year. A student showcase in the Spring provides an opportunity
for the wider university community to appreciate the students' contributions.
We are pleased to announce that KPU's 2020 Open Pedagogy Fellows are:
Andrea Niosi (Marketing)
Constanza Rojas-Primus (Languages and Cultures)
David Sadoway (Geography)
Dorothy Barenscott (Art History)
Please join us in congratulating our latest fellows!
For more information about the UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship (including examples of
assignments from the 2019 Fellows) please visit:
https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship