Education

How online classrooms can boost sustainability education

From University World News: “‘I love it when I am teaching online,’ said Debra Rowe, President of the US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development, who has been teaching remotely for more than 30 years. ‘Students can learn so much from each other and immediately apply what they are learning.’ The diversity helps to boost innovation, with research finding that ‘you learn more when you can elaborate and come up with examples’, she said. Rowe said such interactions help to fight a dangerous and growing political narrative that the world’s resources are scarce and that ‘the other’ is someone to be feared or hated. ‘In reality, we have the resources to give everybody on this planet a higher quality of life, while still protecting the planet for present and future generations,’ she said.

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