This fall’s Open Learning Digital Fluency fellowships (#OLDFF) aim to promote online learning fluency among the student, teaching, and administrative populations at the University of Windsor.
The fellowships will take place weekly, at noon on Thursdays from October to November, between Windsor, Nipissing, Mohawk, Toronto, OCAD, Brock, and Trent partners. Participants co-design conversations around relevant themes on humanizing online learning.
Key Takeaways:
- The Open Learning Digital Fluency fellowships (#OLDFF) aim to promote online learning fluency at the University of Windsor.
- Recently, UWindsor allowed international students who cannot return to the campus to start their online programs.
- The fellowships will be highlighting the provincial eCampus Ontario Digital Fluency grant on Humanizing Learning.
It can be recalled that UWindsor allowed international students to apply for Fall 2021, even if the submission is beyond the May 15 initial deadline. International students could start their preferred program online even if there is no decision on the study permit application yet.
As part of a provincial eCampus Ontario Digital Fluency grant on Humanizing Learning, the fellowships are an excellent platform for UWindsor to raise the best practices in implementing online learning to its students, especially those in pandemic-affected countries.
Conversations will be facilitated using a “What? So what? Now what?” liberating structure, and will be centered around the themes of the Humanizing Learning grant:
- Module 1: Unlearning and Unsettling (Oct. 7 and 14)
- Themes for discussion: Questioning and Reflection
- Module 2: Students as Agents of Diverse Destiny (Oct. 21 and 28)
- Themes for discussion: Vulnerability and Failure
- Module 3: Co-Creating Inclusive Communities (Nov. 4 and 11)
- Themes for discussion: Trust and Context
- Module 4: Sustaining Change (Nov. 18 and 25)
- Themes for discussion: Critique and Care
Representatives of the UWindsor Faculty of Education and Office of Open Learning representatives are partners in their launch.
The applications for the Open Learning Digital Fluency fellowships are due on Sept. 23, and the results will be announced on Sept. 30. Interested participants may submit their applications here.
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