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Futurize Your Course Competition

  1. Research at AUC
  2. Research and Creativity Convention (RCC)
  3. Futurize Your Course Competition

February 26, 2025

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

The world today is dynamically growing and developing. If you are interested in reimagining what your course might look like in 20 years, we invite you to join and participate in the Futurize Your Course Pitch Competition.

Imagine teaching your course after 20 years. What will change during that time? What will you be teaching? How will you be teaching it? How will society differ? How might higher education change? How will our learners change? How will the working life be? What kind of technology will overtake the world? What kind of global challenges will young people be grappling with? How will these changes affect your discipline's purpose, meaning, and practice of teaching and learning? 

Activity Objective(s):

  • Provide faculty and students the opportunity to collaborate on creating new and effective forms of teaching.
  • Demonstrate the University's commitment to innovation and fostering academic excellence.
  • Showcase the creativity and ingenuity of the research conducted by faculty and students. 


Guidelines

This event encourages teams to consider: 

  • The value and importance of the redesigned course for students and society.
  • The creativity and innovation involved in the redesigned course.
  • The realism or feasibility of the redesigned course.
  • The research and preparation put into designing the new course.

 

Who Can Participate?    

  1. Teams must include four members, including at least one faculty member and one student. Optional members can be faculty, staff directly involved in teaching and learning, students, or teaching assistants.
  2. All members must be affiliated with The American University in Cairo (AUC) and the team must be led by at least one full-time AUC faculty member. 
  3. Teams can be interdisciplinary.

Each team gets 15 minutes to pitch their course


Awards

  • First place prize: EGP 30,000
  • Second place prize: EGP 20,000
  • Third place prize: EGP 10,000

 

Submission of Proposals

Submit Your Proposal

Deadline

Extended Deadline: January 3, 2025