The Sustainability Funds Project aims to integrate sustainable practices into our educational framework, forming a collaboration between Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) and Academic Affairs leadership to create the conditions to ensure that Western Oregon University is delivering high quality and inclusive courses. As part of this initiative, focused on the following programs:

Objective 1: Use Course Quality Rubric

4-week, online, professional learning community and 1-term pilot-testing toward using a course quality rubric. Sign up for the Course Quality Rubric Learning Cohort & Pilot. Instructor honorarium opportunity: $500.

Our objectives will be manageable yet meaningful. They are:

        • Know the guidelines for designing and delivering high quality online courses
        • Understand how these criteria can transform your teaching 
        • Analyze your practice based on this understanding
        • Be able to transform your teaching by implementing these guidelines

Objective 2: Build Infrastructure to Support Continuous Improvement

A 6-month engagement with Online Learning Consortium consulting services to develop an infrastructure to support online and hybrid course development and improvement.

Our objectives will be manageable yet meaningful. They are:

        • Know our institutional strengths and areas for improvement for supporting online and hybrid course development 
        • Understand best practices for the administration of online and hybrid programs
        • Analyze our practices at WOU based on the consultant’s recommendations
        • Be able to transform our practices by implementing the recommendations
 

Objective 3: Diversifying and Decolonizing the Curriculum

10-week, hybrid, Professional Learning Community toward course transformation with equity coaching. Instructor honorarium opportunity: $1000.

Our objectives will be manageable yet meaningful. They are:

        • Know key strategies and resources for culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy
        • Understand how inquiry is a vehicle for sociopolitical and academic identity development
        • Analyze your practice based on stance, design, and shift
        • Be able to transform your teaching at the stance, design, and shift level

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