Integrating Concepts of Global Awareness and Sustainability for 21st Century Learning
Abstract: This paper will describe a curriculum development project to integrate the concepts of global awareness and sustainability to broaden and enhance students’ understanding of both concepts. The paper will describe the integration of a sustainability learning module into an existing online graduate course on “Globalization and Educational Change. The paper will present and analyze the synergies obtained from combining the two major concepts of global awareness and sustainability, with emphasis on the interrelationships among course learning outcomes, online learning activities, and the use of multimedia and other resources in complementary ways.
Presider: M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University