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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: Annie Spratt/unsplash

Figure 2/3/4: UNESCO (2017) adapted from Education for Sustainable Development Goals: Learning Objectives. Paris: UNESCO. Available at: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000247444

Figure 5: adapted from Figure 8.1 ‘Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health’ in Ebi, Hess and Watkiss (2017) Health Risks and Costs of Climate Variability and Change. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK525226/

Figure 6: courtesy: Artists Literacies Institute, artistsliteracies.org Turn It Around, https://turnitaroundcards.org/

Figure 7: still image from 'Small Solutions for Big Problems', an animation by University of Cambridge (hosted on their public engagement YT channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZiXsjoi5Es Creative Encounters/University of Cambridge

Figure 8: Sujan Sarkar/Climate Visuals https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

Figure 9: Ryan Brown/UN Women https://climatevisuals.org/asset/1150

Figure 10: Hoil Ryu/unsplash

Figure 11: Mika Baumeister/unsplash

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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