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Graz, Austria April 20-23, 2005

YOUNG MASTERS PROGRAM – Learning in the ICT-extended University Centre for Learning Lund and International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University in Sweden. Graz, Austria April 20-23, 2005.

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Graz, Austria April 20-23, 2005

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  1. YOUNG MASTERS PROGRAM– Learning in the ICT-extended UniversityCentre for Learning Lund and International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University in Sweden Graz, Austria April 20-23, 2005

  2. ”Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that sounds abstract – Sustainable Development – and turn it into reality for all the world´s people”Kofi Annan

  3. Several steps has been taken. More will come. After the WSSD and Jo´burg 2002 the UN General Assembly proclaimed a Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) during the period 2005 – 2014.

  4. What does the concept ”sustainable development” mean?

  5. To me SD means ESD!ESD need to build on transdisciplinary learning - across all boarders and across all education forms and levels i.e. as outreach. The learning process in the ESD could successfully be developed in the ICT-extended university

  6. That means that we have to …go from straight answers to complex questions!…and find more and new ways for learning – to change our world! And through the third task the Universitycould improve its performance and reach out, educate and implement a more sustainable life-style… not the least among the youth…

  7. The YMP is a very important initiative, that has been taken by the IIIEE at Lund University as an Outreach activity with regard to education and learning for sustainable development.

  8. The overall goals for the Young Masters Program • To create a learning management system, through the YMP/GEYC, and develop a global network within which everybody works together on environmental issues, across national and cultural boundaries.

  9. 2. To offer students and teachers knowledge and tools for a new way of thinking in everyday work, which leads to an environmental insight, where the concept of Preventive Environmental Management Strategies, PEMS, will be the loadstar.

  10. 3. To stimulate students´ learning and interaction and develop students´ investigative and problem solving skills.

  11. 4. To encourage young people to reflect more on attitudes, to realize that their own actions, and the actions of other people in their society, affect the environment.

  12. 5. To help students gain an understanding of PEMS, to be well prepared, confident and convincing when arguing that PEMS are always preferable and economically viable.

  13. Young Masters Programat the IIIEE consists oftheGEYC events every second yearandYoung Masters e-learning courses

  14. Countries participating in GEYC 2000

  15. Global Environmental Youth Convention 2000 • Part I: Introduction to the Environment • Part II: Prevention is better than cure • Part III: Sharing our future • Part IV: Convention 2000 in Lund, Sweden

  16. Global Environmental Youth Convention 2002 • Part I: Introduction of projectwork • Part II: Prevention is better than cure • Part III: Finalizing projectwork on ICT & Mobility • Part IV: Convention in Italy 2002

  17. Global Environmental Youth Convention 2004Environment – Peace – CulturePart I: Introduction to the EnvironmentPart II: Prevention is better than curePart III: ProjectworkPart IV: Convention 2004 in Alexandria

  18. Towards GEYC 2008 in CHINAYoung Masters Program in CHINA– YMPiC 2003 and YMPiC 2004 –a pilot phase • Part I: Introduction to the Environment (6 weeks) • Part II: Preventive Environmental Strategies (8 weeks) • Part III: Project work prepared for the Green School Conference in China (July 2004)

  19. Steps in the web-based learning… Registration->Log in & Password+ CD -> Presentations->-> Learning Activies -> ->Forum discussions->Interactionin virtual course rooms with delegations devided in Groups Red colour = activities via Internet Blue colour = non—Internet activities

  20. Learning Activies -> Forum Discussions • Learning Activity takes place within the delegation locally and mainly face-to-face • Via web-based connection and 5-9 country delegations interact within a Group • In each Group´s Forum Discussion the result of each country delegation´s Learning Activity is presented, shared and commented by the delegations of the group

  21. IIIEESupervisors Supervision byCertified* Tutors Guidance locally byTeachers /Tutors Coordination by Facilitators / Mentors Learning ProcessYoung Masters Birgitta Nordén 050329 *Certified Tutors are those who havetaken the IIIEE distance course, 15 ECTS, “Introduction to Cleaner Production”. The Learning model for Young Masters Program

  22. Research Design for the study of YMPData via online evaluation questionnaire with closed and opened questions; 221 answers from secondary school students from 19 countries in GEYC 2004 was selected Analysis by quantitative and qualitative approach

  23. Result focused in the study of the YMP1 The learning logistics 2 The students’ learning 2.1 Forum discussion and feedback within the YMP2.2. Students’ experiences of learning for sustainable development 2.3. How Young Masters learn

  24. Did the Young Masters experience feedback? Because, whenever I wanted to ask about anything in the course, I found some body to answer me. I felt that to contact with any body from the organizers was so easy as if they are with me in the same country supporting me & helping me in any time.

  25. Who would you like to have more feedback from?

  26. What do the Young Masters learn? 1. ESD – locally and globally To learn about sustainable development was new for me. I agree that it's not only an economical or ecological issue but mainly social. Agenda 21 has quite a lot to do with us who live on the shore of two endangered lakes.

  27. 2. Increased awareness challenges lifestyle The most important thing I have learned was measures of how to save energy and how to make our lifes comfortable without using more materials.

  28. The most important thing I learnt on this course is about the preventive environmental strategies, ...because it is important that we understand how we can develop solutions to the environmental problems to improve our standard of living.

  29. 3. Teamwork, Interaction and Flexible learningWe learned from it the actual meaning of Team work. I learned about the sustainable development and I got to learn more advanced things for my age in a simple way.

  30. 4. Advanteous ESD via the YMPI learned how to solve some problems facing me, I learned a lot about my environment and I got some new information about it from the CD that I didn't know before. This course improved my English well and I knew some new friends and how to deal with them. Me and my friends used to exchange some informations with each other.

  31. Discussion: How Young Masters experience their learning The ICT-mediated contacts catalyse the learning process and the ESD. The variety of interaction between the young masters seems to be an overall new learning perspective in the context of learning via the university. You can see how some solutions that have been applied somewhere else could also work in your local scenario. People can share their knowledge and expertise with the youth, so that we can grow up with a different attitude toward sustainability.

  32. Conclusions: The ICT-extended universities reach out in the YMP With the new ICT-extended university, the quality of teaching and learning by outreach could be improved further. Teachers, who wish to achieve a high standard of competence with their students, cannot leave them alone to supply all additional support. The students need individualised feedback from teachers on how they express what they know. If the universities wish to reach out, the academic has to provide a learning environment in which interaction with ideas and descriptions take place.

  33. Youth as stakeholders outside the university challenges the academic world and offer a unique opportunity for a dialogue about the role of higher institutions in the overall societal transition towards sustainable development. Through the YMP and the GEYC steps is taken from words to deeds! By sharing knowledge, raising awareness, and with all Young Masters’ curiosity trying to find many complex questions, we are all starting to learn more by reflecting – rethinking – reforming, and can develop the ESD.

  34. You are invited to theGlobal Environmental Youth Convention 2006Peace and Sustainable Development The IIIEE at Lund University, Sweden, welcomesteachers with students 15-19 years of age to the web-based course YMP running September 2005 till May 2006. Apply online latest May 30, 2005. The YMP is tutored by IIIEE and free of charge. The main partner is the Euro-Arab Cooperation Center. At the Convention in November 12-16, 2006, in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), the IIIEE will issue a certificate for those who have completed all the four parts of the GEYC 2006.

  35. Thanks for your attention! Birgitta Nordén e-mail: birgitta.norden@ll.lu.se

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