Edin - Learning for a Sustainable Future
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Learning for a Sustainable Future at Coursera Overview
Duration | 11 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Learning for a Sustainable Future at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion
- Add to your LinkedIn profile
- 1 assignment
Learning for a Sustainable Future at Coursera Course details
- What you'll learn
- Critically reflect upon understandings of the range, scope and nature of 'sustainability', and consider the role of personal values and frameworks.
- Explore the way in which systems, connections and factors such as intersectionality influence the impact of sustainability issues.
- Investigate how we might move towards climate action within our own 'spheres of influence' and examine educational approaches to a response.
- Climate change, gender equality, health, social equity, and inclusion are issues that affect us all, impacting human well-being and economic stability. How to live a sustainable life affects and connects - us all.
- On this five-week course, you will develop an informed personal response to these major challenges as you are supported to take positive actions towards a sustainable future. You will learn more about current global issues and consider how we can all take action, personally or locally.
- The course has an additional strand for those working in formal or informal education, who want to bring some of the activities and issues covered in the course into their own teaching.
- You will learn practical ways to explore values and empower people to examine the ways in which they could take local action on global-scale problems.
- Working in this way, starting from where you are within your own context, and sharing this with others throughout the course helps us all to develop a new and collective way of thinking for a sustainable future.
- You will build your understanding of and knowledge of sustainability and the global challenges that we face and experience within our lives, as you learn from experts at the University of Edinburgh, Learning for Sustainability Scotland and other participants on the course.
- By the end of the course, you will be more confident and ready to take steps towards a sustainable future.
- You may also be interested in our 2-week course 'Learning for a Sustainable Future: Live at COP28' https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-live-at-cop
Learning for a Sustainable Future at Coursera Curriculum
Examining Thinking
Geological timeline
What does sustainability mean to me?
What did you have for breakfast?
Course introduction
Community focus
Learning approach
Meet the team
Welcome to Week 1!
Timelines
What issues are core to sustainability?
What does sustainability mean to you?
Investigation: Sharing sustainability issues from your local area
Reflecting on learning
Learning starting points
Learning tools and resources
Getting help
Introduce yourself
Community Discussion: Where did your breakfast come from?
Community Sharing Space
Learning Community Discussion: Examining our thinking
Community signposts
Values and Frameworks
Ways of knowing
Sustainability Story 1: Jack Reed
Sustainability Story 2: Zarina Ahmad
Sustainability Story 3: SCOREScotland
Sustainability Story 4: Jennifer Ba
Sustainability Story 5: Sian Henley
Welcome to Week 2!
The high price of materialism
Values and futures thinking
Moving from thinking to doing
International frameworks: UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Introducing the Sustainability Stories
Investigation: Where might you begin?
Reflecting on learning
Learning starting points
Learning tools and resources
Community Discussion: Values, frameworks and local issues
Community Sharing Space
Learning Community Discussion: Values, frameworks and local issues
Community signposts
Systems and Connections
Moving to Action
Part 1: Conversation with Dave Reay
Part 2: Conversation with Dave Reay
Welcome to Week 4!
The Climate Crisis: A 'wicked' problem
Responsibility and power
Moving to action?
Investigation: Sphere of influence
Reflecting on learning
Learning starting points
Learning tools and resources
Community Discussion: Responsibility, power and moving to action
Community Sharing Space
Learning Community Discussion: Moving to action
Community signposts
Futures Thinking
Sustainability Story 1 revisited: Jack Reed
Sustainability Story 2 revisited: Zarina Ahmad
Sustainability Story 3 revisited: SCOREScotland
Sustainability Story 4 revisited: Jennifer Ba
Sustainability Story 5 revisited: Sian Henley
Welcome to Week 5!
Visions of the future
Revisiting the Sustainability Stories
Reflecting on learning
Learning starting points
Learning tools and resources
Course summary
Next steps
Final reflection
Reflection and Community Discussion: Your local issue and learner journey
Community Sharing Space
Learning Community Discussion: Reflection and planning
Community signposts
Learning for a Sustainable Future at Coursera Admission Process
Important Dates
Other courses offered by Coursera
Student Forum
Anything you would want to ask experts?