In the academic year 2010/11 the HEA funded Learning and Teaching Enhancement projects in Wales with funding of up to two thousand five hundred pounds per project. The projects covered a range of themes including assessment employability and education for sustainable development.
This project sought to enhance student teaching and learning in relation to sustainable development. It did so through the dissemination of innovation developed on the module ‘Sustainability in Practice’. ‘Sustainability in Practice’ is the flagship module on the MSc Sustainability Planning & Environmental Policy (SPEP) in the School of City & Regional Planning Cardiff University.
The module has run since 2007/8. Building directly on the project leader’s ESRC-funded work on ‘Environmental Identity and Activism’ the module is concerned with individual action to promote sustainable development. Due to the success of these taught materials the module was presented with the Royal Town Planning Institute’s prestigious ‘Excellence in Planning Education’ award (2009).
As a consequence this project was solely purposed around dissemination rather than research and evaluation. Dissemination of the resources collated on the ‘Sustainability in Practice’ module was achieved in two keys ways. Firstly through the creation and maintenance of an online website that archives the innovative teaching and learning resources used in this module (www.citizensustainability.com). Secondly this online archive was connected to virtual teaching and learning repositories including submission to the ‘XPERT’ (Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory) and ‘Jorum’ online Open Education Resources.
