The catastrophic impact of the climate emergency continues to be high on the agenda for countries across the globe. Governments, voluntary organisations, and communities worldwide are coming together to find ways to tackle the crisis – and education about how we can all make a difference is vital.
This 12-week microcredential will equip you with the skills to design and deliver online and technology-enhanced teaching (TEL), blended learning, and assessment, across multiple subject areas that effectively addresses the climate crisis.
You’ll discover creative ways to support learners in secondary schools, further and higher education, adult learning and other settings to understand the causes and impact of environmental collapse. You’ll help them to uncover how to address these issues through global citizenship, individual and collective direct action, and democratic participation. You’ll also identify how open and transformative ways of learning and connected learning can underpin such teaching.
Gain essential teaching skills to become an authoritative voice on climate change
Evidence suggests that educators worldwide lack the knowledge and skills to effectively address the climate emergency in their teaching (Teach the Future, 2021). Throughout this microcredential, you’ll learn how online teaching and technology-enhanced learning strategies can be used to address the climate emergency and how to use them with confidence.
Discover how to teach climate change issues across the curriculum
Teaching climate change is often seen as a subject that sits solely within science lessons. This microcredential extends far beyond that to address themes in climate justice, digital literacy, connectedness, activism, and democratic participation that can be implemented in lessons as part of an integrated climate emergency-related curriculum.
Real-world case studies from a number of curriculum areas and education sectors will bring learning to life and help you understand how you can implement learning and assessment successfully in your setting, whether you’re teaching online or face-to-face using technology in the classroom.
You’ll gain skills to create learning that addresses humanity’s role in causing and exacerbating the climate emergency and, in particular, the role of multinational corporations, governments, and the mass media.
Learn from The Open University, experts at the forefront of research in teaching the climate emergency
This microcredential has been created by academics from The Open University’s (OU) Institute of Educational Technology (IET), which is home to some of the world’s leading experts in citizen science, global digital citizenship, and open education.
As world leaders in developing innovative online and technology-enhanced learning, they are uniquely placed to deliver this microcredential. You’ll also engage with brand new research being conducted by IET to explore online and TEL educators’ experiences of addressing the climate emergency in their teaching and their priorities.
By the end of the microcredential, you’ll have the tools and confidence to design learning that will raise awareness of the climate emergency to your learners, and equip them with the knowledge to act and address the issues facing the planet.
This microcredential is being offered at the introductory price of £500 for March only. Normal price £675.
