Advent calendar #24: Are you an eco-tourist?
December 24, 2013
At least according to the adverts on TV, Christmas must be the time when people start planning their next holiday. So are you an eco-tourist or plan an eco-holiday this year? Eco-tourism involves being visiting areas of the planet that are more undisturbed, while trying to be low-impact and socially responsible. These holidays often have …
Advent calendar #21: What is a MOOC anyway?
December 21, 2013
A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. It is a free online course open to anyone with internet access. A MOOC is designed for large numbers of participants and is often taken for personal and professional development as well as simple interest. Participants in a MOOC can take part as much or as little as they …
Advent Calendar #20: The evolution of Sustainability, Society and You
December 20, 2013
Sarah Speight writes: When we start on January 6th, we will be into the third version of the course that is now Sustainability, Society and You and will have had the benefit of developing and refining it over a 9-month period. We have gathered feedback already from the University of Nottingham students and staff who …
Advent calendar #19: Guide to Flickr
December 19, 2013
Some of the activities during our MOOC Sustainability, Society and You involve sharing images relating to various aspects of sustainability. To facilitate this, I’ve prepared a guide to setting up a Flickr account, uploading images and posting them on the Futurelearn platform. As a Christmas present we are making this available under a Creative Commons …
Advent calendar #18: A facilitator’s view
December 18, 2013
Georgina Wood writes: Sadly my time at Nottingham is coming to an end as I submit my PhD thesis and move on to pastures new! My PhD focused on the ‘water literacy’ of young people in the East Midlands of the UK. By this I mean the conceptual knowledge and understanding teenagers have about how …
Advent calendar #3: Biodiversity offsetting and the value of nature
December 3, 2013
Neil Sinclair, a philosophy lecturer involved in the Sustainability, Society and You MOOC on FutureLearn. has recently posted on the Think About It blog about the ethics of biodiversity. His post Biodiversity Offsetting and Extrinsic Properties talks about the involvement of Nottinghamshire in the pilot phase of the biodiversity offsetting scheme about which the UK Government …
Advent calendar #1: A December of preparation!
December 1, 2013
Welcome to December! As we lead up to our first MOOC, Sustainability, Society and You, in January, we are going to have an Advent calendar throughout the month of December – there’ll be a short informative post every day, with tips on being a student in a MOOC, sneak peeks at content, sustainability news and …
Get ahead – read the free books on Sustainability
November 30, 2013
The open online courses on sustainability take advantage of a comprehensive series of free books that were produced on different aspects of sustainability. These eBooks and iBooks are free to download and an interesting read whether or not you’re planning to take the Sustainability, Society and You which is available now for booking on the FutureLearn website. …
Introducing Sustainability
November 22, 2013
This post gives you a flavour of the approach we take towards Sustainability in our course: ‘Sustainability, Society and You’. If you ask six of your friends or family to tell you what ‘Sustainability’ means, you would probably get six different answers. Some of us might say it is about saving the planet or protecting …
