11:35 p.m.
Dear colleagues,
Following the success of last year’s cohort, I am delighted to share this call for
applications for the 2020 Open Pedagogy
Fellowship<https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship> that will once again focus on
the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals<https://en.unesco.org/sdgs> (SDGs).
The SDGs are a set of 17 goals that address a wide range of social issues, such as
poverty, inequality, climate change, and peace and justice. This year, in addition to
continuing to partner with faculty at Montgomery College (Maryland, USA), the fellowship
is expanding to include faculty from Maricopa Community Colleges (Arizona, USA).
This fellowship program is designed to assist faculty with creating assignments to help
students become agents of change in their own communities. Each fellowship team (which
will include at least one faculty member from KPU and one faculty member from either
Montgomery College or Maricopa Community Colleges) will design three “renewable
assignments” during Summer 2020. A minimum of two assignments will be deployed in the
classes of each fellowship team during the subsequent academic year. Faculty are expected
to present to the KPU community at appropriate venues (e.g., Teaching, Learning,
Scholarship, & Research Symposium) on their work. A student showcase will take place
during the Spring 2021 semester (tentatively planned for Tuesday, February 23, 2021).
It is anticipated that up to 10 teams will be selected per year for the UN SDG Open
Pedagogy Fellowship, which includes training and support from the Office of Open
Education. Open Pedagogy Fellows will be required to attend a kick-off meeting and three
additional meetings throughout the summer:
* Tuesday, May 26, 10:00am-1:00pm (Kick-off Meeting)
* Wednesday, June 10, 10:00am-1:00pm
* Wednesday, June 24, 10:00am-1:00pm
* Wednesday, August 12, 10:00am-1:00pm
KPU faculty interested in becoming a UN SDG Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellow should discuss
their interest with the Rajiv Jhangiani<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca>, Associate
Vice Provost, Open Education. There will be priority consideration for applications for
teams, including interdisciplinary teams. Communications with Montgomery College/Maricopa
Community Colleges faculty and students can be done entirely through web conferencing
and/or email. Completed applications must be endorsed by the Dean of your Faculty/School
and submitted to open@kpu.ca<mailto:open@kpu.ca> by midnight on March 30, 2020.
Applications will be adjudicated by the Open Education Working
Group<http://www.kpu.ca/open/oewg>. Faculty will be notified of acceptance into the
fellowship the week of April 6, 2020.
For more information and to browse through examples of assignments designed by the 2019
cohort please visit: https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him)
Acting Vice Provost, Teaching & Learning & Associate Vice Provost, Open
Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
t 604.599.3253 e rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca>
www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open>
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