Sustainability, Society and You MOOC starts on 2nd November
October 13, 2015
At the end of September world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed to 17 Global Goals which aim to achieve three extraordinary things in all countries in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality & injustice. Fix climate change. How do these …
Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
February 23, 2015
The University of Nottingham and the British Library have joined forces to create a free online course looking at how propaganda and ideology fit in to everyday life. Ideology and propaganda make politics; they frame conflict and violence, affluence and aspiration. But what is the relationship between official ideology and everyday life? What makes propaganda ‘real’? …
Shale Gas Massive Open Online Course
December 16, 2014
On the 2nd February 2015 the University of Nottingham is launching it’s Shale Gas Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The course is written by the Shale Gas Research team here at the University who have been publishing the Public Perceptions of Shale Gas UK Public Surveys for the last two years. In this Blog we …
How to Read Your Boss – join us for 27 Oct!
October 22, 2014
Would you like to read your boss better and enhance your own workplace communication at the same time? There’s still time to sign up for ‘How to Read Your Boss’, the University of Nottingham’s next MOOC, starting on 27th October on FutureLearn. Dr. Louise Mullany from the School of English has devised this two-week course …
Take the Sustainability challenge and sign up for a NOOC!
September 25, 2014
We have two online courses starting on Wednesday 8 October for all students and staff of the University of Nottingham who are interested in sustainability. You can choose from: Sustainable and Responsible Business and Perspectives on Sustainability Both can be used to earn credits towards the Nottingham Advantage Award. Sustainable & Responsible Business runs for …
Upcycling all the rage?
July 18, 2014
Two of the course team for our current FutureLearn MOOC, Sustainability, Society and You, course leader Sarah Speight and engineer Mike Clifford, have been busy reusing unwanted pallets. Mike’s gone for a cerebral solution and has turned his into a bookcase (could do with a bit of sanding down and a wax Mike), while Sarah’s …
Sustainability, Society & You – still time to join the free online course
June 17, 2014
Sarah Speight writes: We are now underway with the 2nd free public version of Sustainability, Society & You, having finished the 1st run in March 2014. The world hasn’t changed much in three months. The population has continued to grow, more species have become extinct, more rainforest has disappeared and climate-change related disasters have edged …
Grow your own veg successfully!
June 9, 2014
One of the ways in which many of us try to live sustainably is by growing our own food. Personally, I can’t seem to grow anything worth eating, but Sarah Speight, course leader for the Sustainability, Society and You MOOC which runs again on FutureLearn from next Monday 16 June, has much more success! During …
Keep calm and pre-cycle!
June 6, 2014
As part of the closing stages of the ‘Sustainability, Society and You’ MOOC we ask participants to, if they wish, produce a poster on a subject relating to sustainability. These are then peer reviewed by other learners. As many are posted publicly, we have seen some wonderful examples, from simple informative posters or exhortations to …
Welcome to the Anthropocene video
June 4, 2014
Although it’s a couple of years old, this video, made by Owen Gaffney at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), about climate and environmental change is still very relevant – take a look. “Welcome to the Anthropocene” is a film about the state of the planet, which opened the UN’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development in June …
