Visual Storytelling for Online Learning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract

The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are calls to action worldwide to make our world better. As part of a larger autoethnographic case study, the author explores strategies to decolonize online education through diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. This article demonstrates a chapter of this overall research where a United Nations Fellowship in visual storytelling provides the opportunity to use open pedagogy and create a course where students can tell the stories of their communities across Canada and internationally. Finally, the author demonstrates her own interests in relation to the UN SDG’s and a vision for students to become changemakers in research.