Omprakash EdGE and the Staley School of Leadership Studies at Kansas State University (KSU) in the US have announced a new partnership, through which they will be offering a first-of-its-kind, fully-accredited online course designed to prepare students for social impact work in international contexts. The course is called Introduction to Global Development, Partnerships, and Social Change, and it will use multimedia content from across the social sciences to help students grapple with the social and ethical complexities of attempting to do ‘service’ across gaps of culture and power. The KSU professor overseeing this course is Dr. Eric Hartman, a leading researcher in the field of service-learning and one of the original authors of the Fair Trade Learning framework, a set of guidelines for making international service-learning more ethical, participatory, and mutually beneficial. He also curates GlobalSL.org, an organization working to collect evidence and advance best practices in global learning, community-university partnership, and sustainable development. Through this new partnership, Omprakash EdGE and KSU are working to make international service-learning more critical, ethical, and educational. And anyone, from anywhere, can enroll in the program and earn academic credit from KSU.
