Proposals for the Summer Term 2025
Off University is inviting proposals for an online course on Myanmar taught by scholars at risk.
The course can be proposed from all academic disciplines, yet it should be related to Myanmar and its history, languages, cultures to politics, law or people. Transregional and comparative approaches e.g. with South Asia, are highly welcome. It might be organized in Burmese or English. Course proposals are expected to reflect the recent discourse of the field, advocate diversity in the canon and promote creativity and the active participation of students.
The course will be taught on the Off University online learning platform during the 2025 summer term (14 weeks, April 2025 – July 2025). Lecturers of selected courses will receive a total of 5000,00 € per course as an honorarium for their teaching. Off University’s online-learning platform Moodle offers a virtual classroom including chat options, video live streaming, virtual blackboard, file sharing and a whole range of collaborative learning activities.Over the last seven years, we have organized 74 interactive online courses certified by universities with recognized ECTS credits. ECTS credits can be transferred to a home university after completion. Off University is open for everybody to join, not only participants enrolled at a university.
Application Requirements for Courses:
- Being politically (1) persecuted and/or displaced and (2) unemployed and/or in material need
- Ability to teach a self-organized undergraduate or graduate course in your field of research
- Holding (at least) a master’s degree
- Instructors are required to act in accordance with the Off University Code of Conduct, which can be found here in German, English and Turkish.
Application Materials for Courses (in English)
As course proposals will be selected by an international team of scholars, please submit your application material in English only.
This link leads you to a questionnaire that asks:
- About your experience in teaching an online course and your knowledge on interactive e-learning methods. Please describe your approach to interactive online teaching and the research orientation of the the proposed course (max. 500 words)
- A short statement of persecution and material condition and/or immigration status (max. 500 words)
- Two-page-long course outline (14 weeks) or an example of a course taught on the applied topic before. The outline should describe objectives, planned outcome, requirements and expectations from the students to complete 3 ECTS, which equals 90 hours of course work.
- Full-CV with detailed past teaching and research experience
What we care about in teaching
Off University is committed to an academic life connecting teaching and research. It therefore encourages applications for courses that involve the course participants in the instructor’s actual research activity. This can be achieved by for instance through collective data collection and analysis that involves the participants in an intellectually demanding way, the critical evaluation of instructor’s draft research papers by the participants or the involvement of participants in future common publications or other ways of knowledge dissemination (blogs, wikis, films, conferences etc.). We offer advice on how to integrate research activities into future courses and will help to further develop teaching activities in this direction.
Applicants of non-cis-male gender are strongly encouraged to apply and will be given priority where qualifications are equal, as well as applicants with a disability.
Application Process
Your security as a scholar has first priority to us. We therefore save your data only on our own servers and only communicate with you in secure ways: The messaging app Signal and Proton Mail. In order to notify you about the outcome of your application, please leave your Signal-handle, the number you use on Signal or a proton mail address only.
Please answer the questionnaire and upload your CV and your course proposal HERE.
If you have questions, please reach out to us only via Signal with the number +49 176 233 622 47.
Please note, that for reasons of confidentiality all communication will take place only via Signal.
All applications should be submitted by January 5th, 2025 at midnight (Central European Time).
You will be notified via Signal or Proton mail by February 3rd, 2025 about the outcome of your application.
