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
Dear colleagues,
BCcampus has just put out a call for grant proposals focused on developing activities using H5P.
This is the first of two calls for proposals targeting the development of formative activities for open homework systems. The second call will be issued in early summer 2020 and will focus on a soon to be determined platform that supports math-based courses and programs.
This first call for proposals is for post-secondary instructors and faculty in British Columbia to develop sets of content types in H5P that support open textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection. The intent of these grants is to develop activities in which students can practice applying new concepts and skills that align with content within the selected open textbook.
Eligible grantees include individual instructors, groups of faculty or instructors (either in a single institution or across multiple institutions), departments (either at a single institution or working collaboratively across multiple institutions), institutions, or external working groups made up of instructors and faculty connected to B.C. post-secondary institutions (i.e., articulation groups or other working groups).
The maximum value of each grant is $10,000.
For more information and to apply, please see:
https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/call-for-proposals-2020-h5p-…
All best,
Karen
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