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Supporting climate action through digital education
Supporting climate action through digital education

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Acknowledgements

This free course has been designed by a team of educators who have expertise in online education: Dr Leigh-Anne Perryman, Dr Kathy Chandler, Dr Simon Ball, Dr Irina Rets, Dr Carmel Kent, Dr Maria Aristeidou, Dr Koula Charitonos.

Contributors

Many people kindly agreed to participate in the audio and video recordings especially produced for the course Teacher development: Addressing the climate emergency. We warmly thank them for their generosity in giving their time. Those whose contributions appear within this free course, Supporting climate action through digital education, include the following:

Simon Behrman, Associate Professor at Warwick University

Sally Hayns, Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM)

Desiree Lesatele, Student, National University of Samoa

Doreen Osborne, Climate Café Founder, Glasgow

Mary Troup, Climate Café Founder, Glasgow

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Images

Figure 1: Plant-for-the-Planet Official on Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 Deed | Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic | Creative Commons

Figure 2: mad mags on Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc/ 2.0

Figure 3: Scottish Government/Climate Visuals The Scottish Government - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)CC BY 2.0 Deed | Attribution 2.0 Generic | Creative Commons

Figure 4: Dan Dennis/unsplash

Figure 5: Greta Thunberg urges MEPs to show climate leadership European Parliament © European Union 2020 European Parliament (europa.eu)CC BY 2.0 Deed | Attribution 2.0 Generic | Creative Commons

Figure 6: 14995841/Pixabay

Figure 7: Insure our Future on Flickr PDM 1.0 Deed | Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal | Creative Commons

Figure 8: World Economic Forum 2022 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic | Creative Commons

Figure 9: Department of Education Sign with graffiti Teachers, scientists, parents and children protest at Department for Education to demand climate and ecological truth be taught in schools - Extinction Rebellion UK Extinction Rebellion https://extinctionrebellion.uk/

Audio/Video

Video 1: Adapted from panel: Building power through youth organizing https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Wvy5vyJuEsgCC BY 3.0 Legal Code | Attribution 3.0 Unported | Creative Commons350.org

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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