A Game-based Approach to ESD & Digital Engagement
Workshop sobre integração da Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável no currículo, através de aprendizagem baseada em jogos e tecnologias educativas, promovendo inovação pedagógica, colaboração, competências digitais e estratégias práticas aplicáveis a diferentes áreas disciplinares.
Introducing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into the curriculum can be challenging for a number of reasons, including lecturers’ concerns about sustainability frameworks and how to use them in the teaching and learning process, how to introduce sustainability into different disciplines and subject areas, and the role of digital and pedagogical skills. The purpose of the workshop is to offer a new and exciting approach to ESD through a game-based learning and educational technology. The workshop will demonstrate how technology can promote engagement and understanding of ESD in a contextualised and innovative way and share some practical pedagogy for embedding ESD into participants’ individual fields of knowledge. It will also focus on the approaches to design participants’ own activities with various digital elements, including a game-based and UDL approach. This workshop focuses on improving and enhancing innovation and collaboration in the classroom. It will also encourage reflection on ESD delivery and the cross and multidisciplinary ways of embedding sustainability into teaching and learning and showcase the competencies that can be gained. The learning here can be applied to introducing other curriculum improvements, including EDI and active learning approaches.
Nataliya Romanyatova
Dr. Nataliya Romanyatova (SETU, Ireland) is a Researcher and an Instructional Designer working in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Universal design for Learning (UDL) & Digital Transformation in South East Technological University (SETU), Ireland. Her background is in the area of education, UDL, sustainability, linguistics, research and instructional design.
Nataliya worked as an English language lecturer, associate professor, and instructional designer in several universities in Ireland and abroad. Since her undergraduate degree, she has been passionate about pushing the boundaries of Higher and Adult Education, looking beyond the norm and evaluating how staff and students can be supported and engaged through innovative pedagogical approaches. Nataliya is managing several key university projects on sustainability, which include SETU Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) community of practice, Sulitest pilot launch, ESD Toolkit and Climate Fresk Game SETU CEKO programme. Nataliya is the Climate Justice Universities Union SETU Representative and the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education SETU UDL Lead.
Niamh Power
Niamh Power (MTU, Ireland) is the current Chairperson of the Environmental Science Association of Ireland. She is a Lecturer and Researcher, in Munster Technological University (MTU), Ireland.
She received an honours degree in Civil & Structural Engineering coming top of her class, before pursuing her PhD in the area of waste management, anaerobic digestion and biogas as a transport fuel. Her interests focus on the area of sustainability with particular expertise in waste management, anaerobic digestion, renewable energy from wastes & crops, nutrient recycling, nutrient recover from wastewater, life cycle analysis and policies & drivers for change and the circular economy. She is involved in a number of large national and EU research projects on the circular economy, solar PV (InVEST) sustainable use of nutrients these projects including (ReNu2Cycle, ReNu2Farm and Phos4You,) and future resilience of the farming sector (SIMONE). Dr. Power also worked on the N-TUTORR project as the sustainability lead for MTU and looked at embedding education for sustainable development within Higher Education