Skip to content
Skip to main content

About this free course

Become an OU student

Download this course

Share this free course

Looking globally: the future of education
Looking globally: the future of education

Start this free course now. Just create an account and sign in. Enrol and complete the course for a free statement of participation or digital badge if available.

Acknowledgements

This free course was written by a team led by Alison Fox and Clare Lee.

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:

Course image: © Pat LaCroix / The Image Bank / Getty Images

Week 1

Images

Figure 1: Jordanian school children © Patrick Savalle. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Figure 2. John Dewey: Taken from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Dewey_cph.3a51565.jpg

Figure 4: UN Flag or logo: Taken from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg

Figure 5: Front cover of The Healer by Anti Tuomainen

Activity 2 image of Ken Robinson: (c) Sebastiaan ter Burg via Flickr. This image is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence.

Audio-visual

Activity 2: RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms Used with permission from The RSA

Activity 6: Did you know, in 2028… Uploaded to YouTube by St Paul’s School, Brisbane, Australia

Week 2

Images

Figure 1: VINCENT OHL/LOOK AT SCIENCES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Week 3

Images

Figure 1: View of Collins Glacier in Antarctica, © United Nations. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-No Derivatives Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

Activity 2: Photograph of Brian Cox © Ben A. Pruchnie / Stringer / Getty Images

Figure 2: Butterfly diagram from 'Global Learning and Education: Key concepts and effective practice', p. 133, Routledge, © 2015 A. Peterson and P. Warwick, reproduced by permission of Paul Warwick.

Activity 3: Photograph of Paul Warwick. Reproduced courtesy of Dr Paul Warwick

Course forum: Photograph of Wroclaw river, Poland: © Alison Fox

Audio-visual

Activity 1: ‘Sustainability’ © BBC, transmitted 17 August 1999.

Activity 2: Climate Change: Professor Brian Cox clashes with sceptic Malcolm Roberts. Reproduced by permission of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation – Library

Activity 3: 'What is sustainability?' © BBC, transmitted 5 August 2013.

Activity 4 Scenario 2: Extract from Sustainability Education in HE – towards a pedagogy of hope, challenge and controversy? University of Greenwich Educational Development Unit. Licensed under Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Week 4

Images

Figure 1: 'People. Lots of them...' (Anhangabau Subway Station, Line 3 - Red, Sao Paulo, Brazil) © Diego Torres Silvestre. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Figure 2: Taiwan population pyramids © Chen-Pan Liao via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taiwan-population-pyramid-1980.svg / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taiwan-population-pyramid-2014.svg This file is licenced under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication licence https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Figure 3: 'Crowd' © James Cridland via Flickr. Crowd by James Cridland CC BY 2.0. This file is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Week 5

Images

Figure 1: ‘Tesla Autobots’ © Steve Jurvetson. Image covered under Creative Commons Licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Figure 2: ‘We are the robots’ © Duncan Hull via Flickr. This file is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Week 6

Images

Figure 1: Children at school © Lucélia Ribeiro. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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.

Don't miss out

If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses.