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Global Challenges Teaching Award - Disinformation and Misinformation

The Global Challenges Teaching Award in Disinformation and Misinformation supports a pair of teaching faculty – one at a US higher education institution (HEI) and one at a UK HEI – to collaboratively deliver a virtual exchange programme addressing the causes, impacts, and solutions to disinformation and misinformation. 

Threats to information integrity risk progress on addressing global challenges.

Do you teach an undergraduate class at a US or UK HEI that examines the causes and consequences of disinformation and misinformation? Discover how this award can help you expand your teaching by adapting one of your existing courses for co-teaching with an international counterpart. 

Globally, the rise of disinformation and misinformation has undermined civic and political processes, threatened the integrity of information, and hindered partnership and progress on achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Understanding these threats and equipping students with the skills to identify, understand, and combat disinformation is critical to fostering global citizens capable of driving sustainable development and bridging the divides caused by information manipulation.  

The Global Challenges Teaching Award - Disinformation and Misinformation provides a unique opportunity for faculty in the US and UK to co-develop and co-teach a virtual exchange programme that empowers students to address the wide-ranging impacts of disinformation and misinformation.  

For this award, applications are welcomed from teaching faculty in any discipline that aligns with any of the UN Sustainability Goals.

Applicants should address how their proposed module directly addresses the challenges caused by disinformation and misinformation and how it empowers students to combat these challenges.

Priority Topics

We are particularly interested in applications that explore...

  • The impact of disinformation and misinformation on achieving the UN SDGs
  • Political polarisation and the erosion of trust in civic society and democracy
  • Media literacy and tools to combat disinformation and misinformation
  • The role of new technologies and media in spreading misinformation and disinformation

Eligibility Requirements

  • Currently teach an undergraduate class that addresses disinformation and misinformation. 
  • Have the support of your home institution to adapt and co-teach this course as a virtual exchange.

Rather than creating a new course from scratch, applicants will adapt an existing course they currently teach. Co-teaching with your US or UK counterpart will take place virtually.

Award Benefits

A successful application will receive:

  • Honorarium: $7000/£5510 for the awardee (faculty member). This can be spent however faculty see fit. The honorarium will be paid out in two payments.
  • Institutional Support Fee: $3000/£2360 for the awardee’s higher education institution, payable upon completion of the professional development programme.
  • Travel Funding: Up to $7500/£5900 for the awardee and one administrative staff member to visit their partner institution in the US or UK.
  • Professional Development and Mentoring: Tailored COIL-modelled blended professional development and customized mentoring led by VE/COIL experts from AAC&U, designed for teaching faculty, instructional designers, and academic administrators.    

Visit our Global Challenges Teaching Awards page

to find out how to apply.

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