Online further education

«To tackle our global challenges – from water and food scarcity and climate change to digital learning, innovation, and human health – we need ambitious new answers from science and engineering. But because these challenges are rooted in culture, economics, and politics, meaningful solutions must reflect the wisdom of these domains too.»

Kilde: MIT president L. Rafael Reif

 

Students have an important role in
to further develop society, as described in Meld. St. 16 Culture for quality in higher education.

 

The intention of the overall development project and the studyprogram Sustainability leadership - for people, planet and prosperity is that the topics developed will open up to help candidates understand the need for and necessity of interdisciplinary / inter- and cross-disciplinary as well as cross-cultural studies as well as the need for collaboration between natural sciences and social sciences and the humanities as premises. for how to develop a sustainable society. Moral and ethical issues related to this context will be central. Methods we want to use include reverse classrooms, video and / or audio podcasts and online assignments (inspired by an American methodology, called "webquests"). The students participate in all teaching outside the physical classroom, and to a very large extent actively control their own learning at the pace they have the opportunity to. All topics that the project contains are compatible with working life and will help the student to take the next step in the work with CSR and the UN's sustainability goals for the green shift. The student is given the opportunity to link real issues from their own workplace to topics that are dealt with in the study.