The environmental impact of teaching and learning

This free course, The environmental impact of teaching and learning, discusses the impact on the environment of carbon based teaching and learning in Higher Education Institutions. It introduces a suite of innovative tools and resources which have been designed to help assess and identify ways to reduce these impacts.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• Course overview
• Part 1: For students and lecturers or academic designers
• 1.1 Why is it important to have more sustainable higher education teaching systems?
• 1.2 Approaches undertaken by HE institutions to reduce carbon emissions
• 1.3 Environmental impacts of teaching and learning activities
• 1.4 Summary
• Part 2: For students
• 2.1 Exploring tools to assess the carbon-based environmental impacts associated with learning activities in higher education
• 2.2 Summary
• Part 3: For lecturers and academic designers
• 3.1 Exploring tools to assess carbon-based environmental impacts of teaching and learning activities in higher education
• 3.1.1 Background to the SusTEACH Carbon Calculators
• 3.1.2 Exploring the SusTEACH Carbon Calculator for Students
• 3.1.3 Exploring the SusTEACH Carbon Calculator for Lecturers
• 3.1.4 Explore the tools further
• 3.2 Summary
• Part 4: For lecturers and academic designers
• 4.1 Examination of the carbon impacts associated with different systems and models of providing higher education teaching and learning
• 4.2 New teaching models and how ICTs are changing higher education
• 4.3 Types of teaching models used in higher education and their environmental impacts
• 4.4 Exploration of tools to assess carbon-based environmental impacts of learning designs and teaching models in higher education
• 4.4.1 Exploring the online SusTEACH Planning Tool
• 4.4.2 Exploring the SusTEACH Modelling Tool
• What next?
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• References
• Acknowledgements