Dear Open Education Community,

The UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning and the University of Nova Gorica, both Slovenian institutions, are launching a new, free and international online “Open Education for a better world” mentoring programme.

The goal of the programme is to connect mentors and students online on topics pertaining to UN Sustainable Development Goals. We already received several applications for mentors from all over the world including UNESCO Chairs for OER.

We welcome applications from participants around the world to join this innovative program.

Selected candidates will be responsible for designing open e-learning courses that will unlock potentials and bring benefits to many at no cost for participants. Applications from all over the world for courses in different languages are expected.

Selected mentors will assist course developers to design and implement open e-learning courses and will provide online mentoring to course participants.

Deadline for applications (course developers and mentors): 10 Nov 2017
Acceptance announcements: 8 December 2017
Start of the programme: 15 January 2018
Closing date with presentation of results: 7 July 2018

Check application form here http://unesco.ijs.si/project/open-education-for-a-better-world/

Programme coordinators: Tanja Urbančič and Mitja Jermol

E-mail: tanja.urbancic@ung.si