Exciting news! snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ Langara College is participating in the 2023 UN Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship.
This award-winning fellowship provides faculty with an opportunity to work with students and colleagues to impact change through community engagement and open teaching practices.
About the fellowship
The fellowship is founded on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), a set of 17 goals that address a wide range of social issues, such as poverty, inequality, and climate change. The UN SDGs are designed to achieve and maintain social justice and a sustainable future, with a target of the year 2030 set for the attainment of each goal.
Open pedagogy places students at the center of the learning process in a more engaging, authentic, and collaborative learning environment in order to achieve social justice in the community.
This fellowship is designed to assist faculty with creating renewable assignments to help students become agents of change in their own communities. Renewable assignments add value to a student’s world, live outside of the boundaries and beyond the duration of the course, and are likely to have lasting impact.
Visit the UN SDG Toolkit to review renewable assignments developed by past fellows.
Structure and time commitment
The UN SDG fellows participate in four 3-hour meetings over the summer 2023 semester. These sessions provide foundational knowledge about open pedagogy, the UN SDGs, interdisciplinary collaboration, assignment design, and more.
Faculty fellows are paired with 1-2 instructors from different disciplines and different institutions. The teams design three renewable assignments and implement at least two during the fall 2023 or spring 2024 semester.
A student showcase will take place in early 2024 in which a select number of students will present on how they improved their communities and furthered global justice through open pedagogy using the UN SDG framework.
Why should Langara instructors consider participating in this fellowship?
- Energize your NID Plan
- Collaborate with a diverse group of educators from around the world
- Design renewable assignments that are more resistant to ChatGPT and other ‘creative’ technologies
- Advance Langara’s Academic Plan (Transformational Learning Experiences, Social Responsibility)
Open Langara, the College’s open education committee, will provide support for the Langara UN SDG fellows. If you are interested in becoming a UN SDG fellow, please complete the application form by April 21, 2023.
Questions? Contact open@langara.ca.
