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Dear colleagues,
The Open Education Working Group is delighted to announce the creation of an Open
Pedagogy Fellowship in partnership with Montgomery
College<https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/offices/elite/unesco/> (Virginia, USA)
that centres on the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals<https://en.unesco.org/sdgs> (SDGs), a set of 17 goals that address a wide
range of social issues, such as poverty, inequality, climate change, and peace and
justice.
This fellowship is designed to assist faculty with creating renewable
assignments<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14757257188117… (all of
which will carry a Creative Commons license) 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 Montgomery College) will begin to design three
renewable assignments in Summer 2019.
It is anticipated that 2 applications will be selected for the UN SDG Open Pedagogy
Fellowship, which includes training and support from the Office of Open Education along
with a grant of CDN$1000 that may be used to hire one or more student assistants. Open
Pedagogy Fellows will be required to attend a kick-off meeting and three additional
meetings throughout the summer.
KPU faculty interested in becoming a UN SDG Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellow should discuss
their interest with Rajiv Jhangiani<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca>, Special Advisor
to the Provost on Open Education. There will be priority consideration for applications
for teams, including interdisciplinary teams. Communications with MC faculty and students
can be done entirely through web conferencing and/or email.
Completed applications must be endorsed by the Dean of your Faculty and submitted to
open@kpu.ca<mailto:open@kpu.ca> by midnight on April 1, 2019. 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 8, 2019.
For more information about this fellowship and the application form, visit:
http://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.
Special Advisor to the Provost on Open Education & Psychology Instructor
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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