ESCalate, Open Sustainability in Education Resource (OSIER)
- Start date: 2010-09-01
- End date: 2011-08-31
- Status: complete
Re-orienting education to integrate sustainable development principles, values and practices underpins the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Emphasis on sustainable development is now a central part of HEFCE strategy for development of the higher education (HE) sector and is becoming increasingly prominent in UK schools’ curricula.
Lecturers in initial teacher education (ITE) and continuing professional development (CPD) programmes in HE need to update their teaching programmes to respond to these changes. It is timely to develop an OER site for ESD, sharing learning materials and resources for reuse and repurposing between programmes that have integrated ESD.
Aims and Objectives
To create a collection of open education resources for education practitioners to integrate Education for Sustainable Development into their programmes, and to promote this collection to ensure its continuing use and sustained development beyond the end of the project, fostering a community and culture of sharing resources in education training.
Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes
- Repository supporting the teaching of Education for Sustainable Development, containing at least 360 credits equivalent of peer-reviewed resources supplied by partners plus further deposits
- Increased awareness and use of these resources, including dissemination activities
- A project website
- Case studies of resource use and usability
Key Focus Areas
- The professionalisation of education, with a specific focus on Education for Sustainable Development
Organisations
Lead Institution:
- ESCalate, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol
http://escalate.ac.uk/
Consortium Partners
- University of Bristol: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/
- London South Bank University: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ahs/research/education.shtml
(with the UK ITE ESD/GC Network: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ccci/uk_ite_network/index.shtml) - Bangor University: http://addysgbyd.bangor.ac.uk/
- Institute of Education, University of London: http://www.ioe.ac.uk
- University of Strathclyde: http://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/education/
- St Mary’s College, Queen’s University Belfast: http://www.stmarys-belfast.ac.uk
(with the Centre for Global Education, NI: http://www.centreforglobaleducation.com/)