United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship
Student Collaboration supporting UN SDG’s
Reynold Vaz, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (BC, Canada);
Lynn Mizzi Brysacz, Maricopa Community Colleges (Arizona)
2021-2022
Introduction:
You are a part of a collegewide effort to increase access to education and empower students
through "open pedagogy." Open pedagogy is a "free access" educational practice that places you
- the student - at the center of your own learning process in a more engaging, collaborative
learning environment. The ultimate purpose of this effort is to achieve greater social justice in
our community in which the work can be freely shared with the broader community. This is a
renewable assignment that is designed to enable you to become an agent of change in your
community through the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). For this work, you will integrate the disciplines of Business and Academics to achieve
SDG #4: Quality Education with a focus on 4.7 Sustainability.

Learning Objectives:
Orient students with the UN SDG’s and facilitate collaboration through renewable tools (but not
limited to) such as workshops, assignments, environment study, group discussions and
presentations.

Purpose/Rationale:
Encourage critical thinking and develop an interest within students to take initiative in supporting
the UN SGD’s in their personal, academic and profession environment

Instructions:

Create groups that will select a UN SDG for their semester of learning. Assign deliverables that
would be discussed within these groups to obtain ideas and facilitate collaboration.

Format Requirements:
Each student to draft their individual content collected through group collaboration and draft that
in a document (2 - 3 pages); PowerPoint presentation by the group (Maximum 3 minutes for each
student); impactful and reaffirming online video at the end of the presentation for at least 3
minutes

Student Collaboration supporting UN SDG’s is licensed by Reynold Vaz, Kwantlen
Polytechnic University (BC, Canada) and Lynn Mizzi Brysacz, Maricopa Community Colleges
(Arizona) under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC)