What is required of instructors/lab instructors/subject matter experts?
KPU faculty or staff are expected to include some climate change content in their course, lab, program or other work at KPU. If teaching a course, you would have at least one assignment focused on climate change.
Do you have resources?
Yes! We’ve set up an instructor Moodle site where there are resources, including documents, video interviews with climate experts and ideas for dealing with climate anxiety. We are working on sample assignments that can be easily adapted for any class, lab or program.
Once I’ve added a climate change assignment to my class/lab/program, what next?
That depends on how involved you would like to be! We would appreciate having you add an optional student survey to your course website, to ask students about their experience. We also would like to share more examples of student work on the Climate+ Challenge website as time goes on. If you’re interested in sharing or showcasing student work, please get in touch with Christina Shorthouse at christina.shorthouse@kpu.ca.
I’m interested in doing more, how can I be involved?
We have climate coffee gatherings for instructors twice a month. Email Christina Shorthouse at christina.shorthouse@kpu.ca to be included. If you’re already on the Moodle site, you will automatically be included and the gathering takes place on Teams.
If you have an assignment you would like to share, or climate resources, please add the materials through the Sharing Resources discussion forum on our Moodle site.
You can also reach us by filling out our Contact Us form!