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Valeria Andreoni; Alice Richard – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the 2030 SDGs Game as a pedagogical tool for the promotion of interdisciplinary education. Based on the simulation of possible world outcomes for the year 2030, the game induces participants to reflect on the socioeconomic and environmental consequences of actions and facilitate the exploration of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Weber, Jana M.; Lindenmeyer, Constantin P.; Liò, Pietro; Lapkin, Alexei A. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Approaches to solving sustainability problems require a specific problem-solving mode, encompassing the complexity, fuzziness and interdisciplinary nature of the problem. This paper aims to promote a complex systems' view of addressing sustainability problems, in particular through the tool of network science, and provides an outline of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Workshops, Sustainability
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Chong Xiao; Kelvin Wan; Theresa Kwong – Cogent Education, 2024
This study aims to develop and validate a comprehensive scale for assessing students' sustainability competence in education for sustainable development (ESD). Existing ESD assessment tools have faced criticism for lacking rigorous design and validation. Following a three-phase procedure proposed by Boateng et al., the study utilized qualitative…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), College Students
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Lafuente-Lechuga, Matilde; Cifuentes-Faura, Javier; Faura-Martínez, Úrsula – Education Sciences, 2020
Higher education must include training in sustainability to make all actors aware of the serious problems our planet is facing. Mathematics plays an important role in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and at the same time these allow working with real situations in the subject of mathematics, providing the student with…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Problem Solving, Economics Education, Mathematics
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Islind, Anna Sigridur; Norström, Livia – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the future of work by investigating how work can be practiced to meet global sustainability goals. The authors draw from empirical findings from a case of critical design session with university students. The aim of the design session was, on the one hand, to embed sustainability into education and, on the other…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Employment, College Students, Critical Thinking
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Kiraz, Askin; Salman, Subhi Ahmad Mahmoud – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
The aim of this study is to identify the environmental knowledge and the environmental awareness level of the university students. With this aim it is considered to compare the thoughts and the point of views between the international and domestic students' environmental knowledge about North Cyprus. The case study has been used as a design of the…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education, Pollution, Sustainable Development
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Alm, Karin; Melén, Maria; Aggestam-Pontoppidan, Caroline – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to explore an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach for advancing knowledge and understanding of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) at higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative study conducted an explorative experiment to elaborate on forms to advance a pedagogical approach…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development
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Langlois, Guillaume; Vibulphol, Jutarat – English Teaching Forum, 2019
In English as a foreign language (EFL) classes, teachers face the common challenge of demonstrating the importance of English to students who do not have much contact with users of English in their daily life. This often translates to a lack of progress in English language learning in settings such as Thailand, where in spite of the emphasis put…
Descriptors: Workshops, English (Second Language), Role, Sustainable Development
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Piet Kommers Ed.; Tomayess Issa Ed.; Adriana Backx Noronha Viana Ed.; Theodora Issa Ed.; Pedro Isaías Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the International Conferences on: Educational Technologies 2022 (ICEduTech 2022), Sustainability, Technology and Education 2022 (STE 2022), Internet Technologies & Society 2022 (ITS 2022), and Applied Management Advances in the 21st Century 2022 (AMA21 2022) held virtually, from December…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Simulation, Telecommunications, Teacher Education
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DeLuca, V. William; Lari, Nasim – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2013
This paper examines the development of students' metacognitive skills in a data-rich environment. The study involves the development and use of a Metacognitive Inventory, which evaluates students' awareness of their cognitive processes as they approach and solve problems. This 26-item inventory is based on the Problem Solving Inventory and State…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Metacognition, Evaluation, Cognitive Processes
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Noroozi, Omid; Weinberger, Armin; Biemans, Harm J. A.; Mulder, Martin; Chizari, Mohammad – Computers & Education, 2013
Learning to argue is prerequisite to solving complex problems in groups, especially when they are multidisciplinary and collaborate online. Environments for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) can be designed to facilitate argumentative knowledge construction. This study investigates how argumentative knowledge construction in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Problem Solving, Learning Processes
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Cakula, Sarma – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2011
Problem-based learning and technology support for students in higher education investigates the new perspectives of education in connection with the change of life paradigm. The present research seeks to find out what study methods and technology support can be used for developing students' creative experience in the context of education for…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Information Technology, Sustainable Development, Creative Activities
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Montanes, Maria T.; Palomares, Antonio E. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2008
In this work we show how specific challenges related to sustainable development can be integrated into chemical engineering education by introducing an environmental management system in the laboratory where the students perform their experimental lessons. It is shown how the system has been developed and implemented in the laboratory, what role…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Management Systems, Laboratory Experiments, Chemical Engineering