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Time to act through sustainable experiences for higher education students:a project to promote sustainability
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In this work, we propose to present the project "Time to Act through
Sustain-able Experiences for Higher Education Students", also known as
TIME2ACT@SD. TIME2ACT@SD aims to contribute to the development of
knowledge, skills, and attitudes, as well as changing behaviours among European
HE (Higher Education) students in the field of sustainable development (SD) and
SD Goals (SDG), through the development of interactive content, digital tools, and
innovative teaching methodologies, based on the use of the gamification, for HE
teachers' use in formal and non-formal education.
TIME2ACT@SD seeks to produce a set of open educational resources that can be
used by higher education teachers in the teaching and learning processes. Through
innovative practices of training (e.g., MOOC and gamification strategies) and
through active methodologies (workshops and bootcamps, as activities of
experimental nature), the project aims to promote literacy in the target group in the
field of SD/SDG, as well as behavioural changes regarding individual preferences,
awareness of SD, consumption habits and lifestyles.
In this article, it is presented the methodology for the development of the project,
which comprises four phases. The 1st one is the needs analysis - the needs that we
want to address is the lack of knowledge, skills, and actions towards SD among
young people attending HE, as well as innovative educational tools to bridge this
gap in students' education. The 2nd one is the partnership arrangements - the project
involves a total of seven partners from six countries (Politécnico de Santarém;
UCLan Cyprus; Thomas More Mechelen -Antwerpen; Learnmera Oy; Galileo IT;
Rosto Solidário; Gazi University). The 3rd one is the project design and
implementation - the project comprises five work packages (WP): WP 1 Project
Management, WP2 Transnational studies with HE students and teachers, WP3
Development of interactive con-tent and digital/innovative tools, WP4 SD/SDG
training Workshops and Bootcamps, and WP5 Strengthening the cooperation
one
is about the project impact - to assess if the project goals have been achieved,
different monitoring levels must be considered, either in the short or long term, and
in every stage of the project.
TIME2ACT@SD will be developed through (a) Transnational studies with HE
students and teachers to identify skills gaps on the SD/SDG topic; (b) Development
of interactive content and digital/innovative tools, namely using immersive and
gamification approaches; (c) SD/SDG training workshop and bootcamps to promote HE students´ attitudes and behaviours changing through learning by doing; (d) Strengthening the cooperation partnership and exploitation of the project's results to other HEI stakeholders.
The TIME2ACT@SD results will be transnational studies with HE students and
teachers about SD topics (scientific papers), MOOC and webinars aiming to
promote the HE students' literacy on environmental, social and economic
sustainability, web/mobile-based and immersive games on SD, a virtual workshop
on educational games, sustainability bootcamps, an online platform, focus groups
with HEI stakeholders, an international conference.
The work presented is a project proposal, financing is expected to be in place by
the end of 2022, then the main limitation is that it has not yet been implemented.
This project will contribute to education for sustainable development with
innovative tools (e.g., using gamification and virtual/augmented reality) and
educational technology that will be made available to higher education teachers for
greater effectiveness in the educational process.
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Keywords
Sustainability Higher education Innovative teaching methodologies Erasmus project
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Leal, S., Oliveira, S., Vivas, C., Nascimento, J., Barradas, C. & Loureiro, A. (2022). Time to act through sustainable experiences for higher education students : a project to promote sustainability [Conference presentation abstract]. Moving on Towards ‘New Normal’ in Education - ICEM 2022 Conference: Book of Abstracts, 12 – 14 October 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.15/4372