The challenge of widening citizen participation in climate change education: developing open educational resources on the lived experiences of climate change
If climate change education is to become more than self-serving and
contribute to meeting the global challenge of sustainable development, it must
broaden its scope to include a wider range of students in terms of age, social
group and ethnicity than is usually the case. In this paper the authors discuss
how open and flexible learning can apply its strengths in the area of widening
participation, as it can lever years of experience with non-traditional target
groups. They show how flexible learning universities, such as Open
Universities, may offer their curriculum as open educational resource (OER)
for these types of learning and can indeed contribute for achieving such a
needed critical mass. Mass education of this type may have a key role to play in
meeting any global challenge, and climate change is no exception. In this
paper, the authors exemplify it through an exploration of a partnership project
between eight European universities in developing the LECH-e materials for a
Master’s curriculum on the lived experiences of climate change.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio