​​​Partnership Announcement & Apply Now! | UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship​ [cid:image001.jpg(a)01D72094.BFA0BCF0] KPU’s Office of Open Education<https://www.kpu.ca/open> is thrilled to announce that Langara College and Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will be joining KPU to grow BC’s representation in the award-winning UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship! Alongside founding member, Montgomery Community College in Maryland, USA, Langara and TRU join partners at Maricopa Community Colleges (Arizona), Pima Community College (Arizona), and the Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland). About Interested in designing meaningful assignments that take on some of the world's most pressing sustainability needs? The UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship is for you! Apply for this award-winning fellowship <https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2020/open-pedagogy/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-open-pedagogy-fellowship/> and work in interdisciplinary, inter-institutional teams this summer to create renewable assignments. Once created, deploy these assignments in your courses toward reaching any of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.​<https://en.unesco.org/sustainabledevelopmentgoals> Hear what past participants of the UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship have to say: Video Content. <https://media.kpu.ca/id/0_uwnqvrx8?width=608&height=402&playerId=23451315> Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. The creation, adaptation, and adoption of OER supports equitable access to education. Open pedagogy may be understood as an access-oriented commitment to learner-driven education. An increasingly popular form of open pedagogy involves the design and use of renewable assignments. Renewable assignments (also known as non-disposable assignments)​those that add value to a student's world, live outside of the boundaries and beyond the duration of the course, and are likely to have a lasting impact. Disposable assignments, on the other hand, are those that only the instructor and students will see and which students are likely to throw away once they have been graded (Seraphin et al., 2019<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1475725718811711>; Wiley, 2013 <https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975> ). Accepting applications now through March 31. For more information and to apply, please visit: www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship<https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship> Best, [logo gif] Urooj Nizami; MISt, MA (she/her) Open Education Strategist, Office of Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University e urooj.nizami(a)kpu.ca<mailto:urooj.nizami(a)kpu.ca> w www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open> Subscribe to the KPU Open listserv here<https://lists.bccampus.ca/mailman/listinfo/openkpu> Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, please destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies. At KPU, we work, study, and live in a region south of the Fraser River which overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semihamoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlen peoples.