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Technology-Enhanced Learning and Education for Sustainable Development

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Computer-based learning; Educational technology; ESD (education for sustainable development) e-Learning; ICT (information and communications technology); Technology-enabled learning; Technology integrated learning; TEL (technology-enhanced learning); Online learning

Introduction

UNESCO, the United Nations agency for education, states that Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) “aims at developing competencies that empower individuals to reflect on their own actions, taking into account their current and future social, cultural, economic and environmental impacts, from a local and a global perspective” (UNESCO 2017). The term technology-enhanced learning (TEL), synonymous with e-learning, has come to reflect the wide range of possibilities of using technology as both a mode of instruction as well as a means to improve or transform learning that is sustainable. The juxtaposition of these two terms invites consideration of the role of technology in the reimagining of...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. College of Professional Education, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI, USA

    Belinda J. Rudinger

  2. School of Education, College of Professional Studies, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, USA

    Joy Kcenia O’Neil

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Correspondence to Belinda J. Rudinger or Joy Kcenia O’Neil .

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  1. Faculty of Life Sciences, World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

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  1. School of Architecture and Design,Program Manager, Master of Disaster Design and Development, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Judy Rogers

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Rudinger, B.J., O’Neil, J.K. (2019). Technology-Enhanced Learning and Education for Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_368

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