This session is part of an ESD-Net 2030 webinar that will take place on Thursday, 30 March 2023, 13:00-15:00 CET.
Register here and select Session A. On the day, you will be automatically allocated to the breakout room associated with the session selected.
The Association for Learning Design and Education for Sustainable Development (ALDESD) provides a range of courses, Bootcamps and professional development opportunities to academics, learning designers, curriculum designers and educational developers embedding ESD in educational practices in collaboration with UNESCO IESALC, the American University of Sharjah, Manchester Metropolitan University, Glasgow University and the Open University.
Workshop description: The workshop will provide a general overview of the CoDesignS ESD Framework and Toolkit highlighting the importance of not only embedding the key competencies for sustainability in curriculum design but also engaging the head, the heart and the hands supported by transportive pedagogies. The CoDesignS ESD Framework and Toolkit has been designed with a co-creation and collaboration philosophy in mind. The CoDesignS ESD Toolkit Planner is an innovative cloud-based tool that allows educators to collaborate when designing curriculum elements embedding ESD.
By the end of the session, the participants will be able to:
Explain the importance of the three pillars of the CoDesignS ESD Framework (key competencies for sustainability; specific learning objectives for the SDGs (head, heart and hands) and transformative pedagogies and teaching methods).
Explain how the CoDesignS ESD Toolkit has been used to co-create and share contextualised cases.
Recognise the potential of using the CoDesignS ESD Toolkit Planner to collaborate and co-create curriculum design elements supported by interactive dashboards to inform educational practice.
Target audience: The workshop is aimed at academic, teachers, educational developers, learning designers and students with an interest in embedding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in curriculum design.
Facilitators:
Maria Toro-Troconisis an EdTech Consultant and strategist working for different organisations of The United Nations: UNICEF Office of Innovation, UNICEF Europe and Central Asia, UNICEF Malawi, UNICEF Uzbekistan, UNESCO IESALC, UNDP Iraq and UNDP Azerbaijan.
Maria was selected as one of the top international education influencers of 2021 (Edruptors) by ISC Research because of the impact she has had to affect change for educators in Education for Sustainable Development. She is the Founder and Director of the Association for Learning Design & Education for Sustainable Development (ALDESD) and the author of the CoDesignS ESD Learning Design Framework,
which has been implemented in several universities globally. Maria was presented with the Rector’s Medal and the Award for Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience in 2014 at Imperial College London.
Norita Ahmad is a Professor of Information Systems and Analytic at American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates. She is the director at ALDESD and also the Director at the Centre of Innovation in
Teaching and Learning at AUS. She received her PhD in Decision Science Engineering Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, MSc in Telecommunications and Network Management from Syracuse University and BSc. in Computer Science also from Syracuse University. Her research interest includes innovative uses of information technology, decision analysis, and technology adoption. She published in a variety of scholarly journals such as IT and People, IS Frontiers, and Journal of Knowledge Management. She is a member of IEEE.