E-Learning and Education for Sustainability

Contents: Anne Sibbel: An experience in developing and implementing blended learning for sustainability - Joop de Kraker/Ron Cörvers/Angelique Lansu: E-learning for sustainable development: linking virtual mobility and transboundary competence development - Ana Paula Martinho/Sandra Caeiro/Fernando Caetano/Ulisses M. Azeiteiro/Paula Bacelar-Nicolau: Training and Employability, Competences from an e-learning undergraduate programme in Environmental Sciences - Francisca Pérez Salgado/Gordon Wilson/Marcel van der Klink: Transforming academic knowledge and the concept of Lived Experience: Intervention Competence in an international e-learning programme - Daniel Otto: Let s Play! Using simulation games as a sustainable way to enhance students' motivation and collaboration in Open and Distance Learning - Anthony Halog/Gary Dishman: Developing E-Learning Materials for Teaching Industrial Ecology and Environmental Sustainability - Sally Caird/Andy Lane/Ed Swithenby: Greening Higher Education qualification programmes with online learning - Joop de Kraker/Ron Cörvers: European Virtual Seminar on Sustainable Development: international, multi-disciplinary learning in an online social network - Mª Carmen Ortega-Navas/Rocío Muñoz-Mansilla/Fernando Latorre/Rosa María Martín-Aranda: Electronic logistics for a sustainable distance education: the new UNED on-site virtualization of evaluation procedure documents - Leanna Archambault/Annie Warren: Leveraging E-learning to Prepare Future Educators to Teach Sustainability Topics - Dzintra Ilisko/Svetlana Ignatjeva: The use of information and communication technologies by secondary school teachers for developing a more sustainable pedagogy in Latvia - Rudi W. Pretorius: A critical narrative of e-learning spaces for sustainable development in the Global South - J. Manyitabot Takang/Christine N. Bukania: Cotonou 2012 and Beyond - An Assessment of E-learning for Sustainability in sub-Sahara Africa - Prakash Rao/Yogesh Patil/Manisha

Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro studied at the University of Aveiro and holds a PhD in Ecology from the University of Coimbra (both Portugal). He received his Aggregation in Biology at the Universidade Aberta (Portugal).
Walter Leal Filho is a trained biologist. He holds a PhD and a D.Sc. in environmental technology, plus honorary doctorates in environmental information. He is the Director of the Research and Transfer Centre Applications of Life Sciences at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany). He has authored, co-authored or edited over 70 books and has published over 200 papers on the subjects of environment, technology and innovation.
Sandra Sofia Caeiro holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), a Master in Science of Coastal Zones from the University of Aveiro and a Doctorate on Environmental Engineering from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

«This collection of essays is exceptionally well organised, from conceptual overviews of e-learning and its potential in sustainability education to its implementation from the classroom level to the national level, coming full-circle back to the conceptual once again in the final chapters.»
(Michael McVey, International Review of Education 62/1 2016)