Educating towards the Sustainable Development Goals

By miranda.prynne, 22 April, 2021
Advice on embedding the sustainable development goals into your online teaching
Resources looking at how online teaching can be harnessed to help drive progress towards achieving the 17 SDGs
Educating towards the Sustainable Development Goals
How can online teaching be harnessed to help drive progress towards achieving the 17 SDGs?
Advice on embedding the sustainable development goals into your online teaching
Sustainability

The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out to address the greatest challenges facing humanity. Universities, as centres of teaching and research, are uniquely placed to lead the charge in achieving the goals, and the move to more online education has created new opportunities to further this work. These resources explore ways that universities and academics can leverage educational technology to drive progress towards the SDGs.

Teaching sustainability
Using digital education to improve teaching of sustainability
Teaching sustainability
Advice on using online tools to teach students about sustainability
Supporting access to education for all
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Leading by example
How universities can take steps to reduce their own environmental footprint using educational technology
By miranda.prynne, 16 April, 2021

Greener assessment: transitioning to online marking

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Move marking online to reduce waste paper at your university
Universities should lead by example on sustainability issues, looking at what they can do to shrink their environmental impact. Here, Ling Xia and Yao Wu outline a project that could herald a major reduction in their institution’s paper consumption
By miranda.prynne, 22 February, 2021

Using digital scholarship to enhance public engagement

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Using digital scholarship for public engagement
Having been pushed to the sidelines of academia for too long, public engagement projects can take a central role in digital courses, furthering students’ learning and reaching wider audiences, explains Warren Stanislaus
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4minutes
Building global communities
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Protecting health and wellbeing
Wellbeing pedagogies to boost the student experience online
By miranda.prynne, 11 February, 2021

Supporting academia’s well-being during Covid-19 and beyond

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Advice on supporting the well-being of overworked academics
With an unprecedented global mental health crisis and rising stress among university staff, six academics come together to propose how best to support faculty and new ways of working now and well beyond the pandemic
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3minutes