The US-UK 狐狸视频 and听听today announced the pilot cohort of Scholars for the听lobal Challenges Teaching Award. This award is the first of its kind that provides an opportunity for US and UK university teaching faculty鈥痶o introduce virtual international exchange into an existing undergraduate programme.
Using the COIL听(Collaborative Online International Learning) method of teaching, The Global Challenges Teaching Award will promote digital innovation and democratise international exchange by bringing together classrooms on both sides of the Atlantic to address the global challenges of our time. This year鈥檚 cohort will be focusing on three pressing issues:听pandemics, climate change and racial justice, with the unique opportunity to share and compare knowledge across nations, widen their perspectives and听build all important transatlantic links that will help听tackle these challenges collectively.
Six Scholars from the US and the UK have been paired by the 狐狸视频 and ACE to collaborate on a respective global challenge
- Amal Abu-Bakare听from Liverpool University, and听George Daniels听from the University of Alabama, will focus on the global challenge of听racial injustice听through their classes studying 鈥楾he Politics of Race and Marginalization鈥� and 鈥楻ace, Gender, Media鈥� respectively.
- Johnathan Kennedy听from Queen Mary University of London, and听Jessie Dubreuil听from University of California, Santa Cruz, will focus on the global challenge of听pandemics听through their classes studying 鈥楬ealth Inequalities and the Social Determinants of Health鈥� and 鈥楶andemics, Politics and Community Health: Global rhetoric鈥檚 of Health and Illness鈥� respectively
- Samantha Buzzard听from Cardiff University, and听Staci Strobl听from Shenandoah University (Virginia), will focus on the global challenge of听climate change through their respective classes studying 鈥楪lobal Climate Change鈥� and 鈥楨nvironmental and Wildlife Crime鈥� respectively.
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Executive Director, US-UK 狐狸视频, Maria Balinska, commented:
鈥淭o solve global challenges we urgently need to bring together the minds and the energy of people from all cultures and backgrounds. That鈥檚 why we鈥檙e excited to be launching the Global Challenges Teaching Award, an award that has collaboration and dialogue at its very heart. Our belief is that these awards will deepen and widen understanding of some of the critical problems facing humanity at the same time as promoting global citizenship and building sustainable relationships between scholars, students and universities across the Atlantic.鈥�
ACE President, Ted Mitchell commented: 鈥淚t has never been more acute for higher education to find innovative ways to sustain our democratic principles, expand global learning practices, and build human connection. Our shared global challenges demand that we in higher education work together to develop long-term strategies that invest more resources into collaboration and partnership and create innovative delivery models to better support lifelong learning.鈥�
Over the next few weeks, scheduled training events with the ACE will commence, bringing all grantees together to learn about previous effective COILs, and the technological platforms that help to connect institutions with different online teaching methods.
Over the summer, grantees will begin their exchange visits to learn more about each other and their partnered institution. 狐狸视频 also hopes to provide additional workshops for the grantees and their institutional administrators to engage in open discourse around the core issues of each global challenge, with input from relevant industry professionals.
To find out more about the Global Challenges Teaching Awards, ahead of the next 2023-24 academic year application cycle,听visit the award pages听or email听globalchallenges@fulbright.org.uk.听 听