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  • Education sub-menuEducation

    With a strong emphasis on student-centered learning, critical literacy, and liberal arts and sciences education, OSUN creates diverse global classrooms of students who learn from each other and collectively develop a culture of dialogue and debate.

    • Teaching
      • Birkbeck Summer School
      • Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy (CLASP)
      • Developing Teaching Professionals
      • Global History Lab
      • Global Teaching Fellowship Program
      • GLOBALED
      • Hannah Arendt Humanities Network
      • Network Collaborative Courses
      • OSUN Courses
    • Threatened Scholars
      Initiative

    • Mobility

    • Certificate Programs
    • Curricula
      • CORUSUS
      • Economic Democracy Initiative
      • Economic Policy Addressing Inequality and Poverty
      • Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network
      • Human Rights Program
      • Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative
      • Policy Labs
      • Professional Development Program for University Administrators
      • Public Health and Human Rights
      • Strengthening the Core
      • Transnational Politics
      • Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice
  • Research sub-menuResearch

    OSUN promotes collaboration across its partner institutions, including the codesign of research projects, to explore issues of global and local relevance through socially engaged research, interdisciplinary collaboration, or comparative research.

    • Research Projects
      • The Democracy Institute
      • Economic Democracy Initiative
      • Engaged Scholarship
      • GEOHUB
      • Global Institute of Advanced Study
      • Global Observatory on Academic Freedom
      • Interruptrr
      • Open Society Research Platform
      • Research Creation Initiative
      • Senior Projects
    • Fellowships
      • Chatham House Academy Fellowships
      • Global Scholars Academy
      • Modular Doctoral Program
  • Access sub-menuAccess

    OSUN expands access to higher education by creating new pathways for underserved communities. Academic integration and connected learning bring educational opportunities to students beyond OSUN’s brick-and-mortar campuses.

    • Teacher Education
      • Enhanced Network Teacher Education Capacity
      • Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
    • Education Pathways
      • Collaborative for Liberal Education for Adolescents
      • Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison
      • English Learner Success in Content Classrooms
      • Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
      • Microcollege for Just Community Leadership
      • OLIve
      • Roma Equity in Higher Education
      • The Socrates Project
  • Civic sub-menuCivic Engagement

    With a belief in the public purpose of higher education, civic engagement across OSUN promotes best practices and bold new initiatives to help students, faculty, and institutions realize their full potential as community actors and educators.

    • Student Engagement
      • Global Commons
      • Global Debate Network
      • Global Engagement Fellows
      • Get Engaged Conference
      • Online Arts Workshop
      • Student-Led Initiatives
      • Student Life Initiatives Project (SLIP)
    • Engaged Learning
      • Certificate in Civic Engagement
      • Community Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences
      • Engaged Scholarship
      • Engaged Senior Projects
      • OSUN Science Shop
      • Solve Climate by 2030
  • News sub-menuNews + Opportunities

    OSUN offers myriad opportunities and events to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and scholars, and faculty. News and features provide updates on project impacts and the people involved.

    • Newsroom
      • Current News         
      • News Archive
    • Events
      • Current Events
      • Events Archive
    • Opportunities
      • Current Opportunities
      • Student Opportunities
      • Faculty Opportunities
      • Opportunities Archive
  • Resources sub-menuResources

    OSUN faculty and institutions have worked collectively to assemble this dynamic collection of student-centered teaching methodologies and instructional strategies. Whether working online, in person, or in a blended context, establishing a clear and consistent communication plan with students is central to all of these practices.

    • OSUN Resources
      • Academic Technology Guides
      • Blended Learning Toolkit
  • About sub-menuAbout

    OSUN aims to educate students for tomorrow’s global challenges, fostering critical thinking and open intellectual inquiry to strengthen the foundations of open society amid the current authoritarian resurgence.

    • About OSUN
      • Our Vision
      • Who We Are
      • What We Do
      • Member Institutions
      • Themes
      • Annual Report
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Education

Education Menu
  • Teaching
    • Birkbeck Summer School
    • Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy (CLASP)
    • Developing Teaching Professionals
    • Global History Lab
    • Global Teaching Fellowship Program
    • GLOBALED
    • Hannah Arendt Humanities Network
    • Network Collaborative Courses
    • OSUN Courses
  • Curricula
    • CORUSUS
    • Economic Democracy Initiative
    • Economic Policy Addressing Inequality and Poverty
    • Professional Development Program for University Administrators
    • Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network
    • Hannah Arendt Humanities Network
    • Human Rights Program
    • Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative
    • Policy Labs
    • Public Health and Human Rights
    • Strengthening the Core
    • Transnational Politics
    • Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice
  • Threatened Scholars Initiative
  • Mobility
    • Undergraduate Students
    • Graduate Students
    • Faculty
  • Certificate Programs
    • Civic Engagement
    • Global Education Development
    • Public Policy and Economic Analysis
    • Human Rights
    • Social Enterprise and Leading Change
    • Food Studies
With a strong emphasis on student-centered learning, critical literacy, and liberal arts and sciences education, OSUN creates diverse global classrooms of students who learn from each other and collectively develop a culture of dialogue and debate. The integration of teaching and learning across OSUN partner institutions features joint accreditations and mutual recognition of course credits.

CONNECTED AND BLENDED LEARNING TOOLKIT

Placing Liberal Arts Pedagogies Front and Center

The OSUN Connected and Blended Learning Toolkit, developed by the Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy (CLASP) at Bard College, in collaboration with the Center for Learning in Practice (CLiP) at the Carey Institute for Global Good, is a living document that is open and accessible to faculty across the network, offering support for connected and blended course development

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION   RUSSIAN LANGUAGE VERSION  ARABIC LANGUAGE VERSION

OSUN Addresses its Educational Objectives through:

  • Teaching
    OSUN institutions provide a rigorous education grounded in critical thinking and open intellectual inquiry.
  • Curricula
    Integrated curricula bind OSUN institutions together, facilitate mobility across the network, and immerse students in different perspectives.
  • Image of threatened Uyghur scholar Rahile Dawut, held by her daughter, Akida Pulat. Courtesy of Akida Pulat.
    Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative
    TSI integrates into OSUN institutions scholars forced to seek alternative teaching, research, or advanced study positions due to threats in their home countries.
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