Higher education and sustainability – Future pathways

Universities and academics around the world are helping to create alternative and more sustainable futures through their research and through Education for Sustainable Development. This is the ninth in a series of special reports published by University World News in support of the global effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

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AI is amplifying universities’ contribution to sustainability

Tianchong Wang and Libing Wang

As AI continues to progress, its ability to amplify universities’ contributions to global sustainability efforts is unprecedented. A thoughtful and strategic approach to AI integration will not only improve educational outcomes but also equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to lead in a sustainable world.

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How online classrooms can boost sustainability education

Andreia Nogueira, Poorna Rodrigo and Raghavendra Verma

The development of virtual global classrooms is helping universities and colleges to boost education for sustainable development by teaching students who otherwise would not have access to higher education and by facilitating interactions that prompt the invention of global solutions to sustainability challenges.

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Universities, Indigenous knowledges and sustainability

Rajesh Tandon and Budd Hall

While the field of Education for Sustainable Development has focused on schooling, students and educators, lifelong and life-wide learning have been increasingly called upon as a critical element in addressing the complex issues around sustainability. This has implications for the roles of universities.

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Universities lack futures studies at a time of huge change

Karen MacGregor

There’s been a tidal shift in thinking around futures studies in the past decade. “Universities are the laggards here,” says futurist Professor Sohail Inayatullah. “But working with students everywhere; agility, diversity, sustainability, AI, global thinking, even spiritual thinking – those come up more and more.”

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Interdisciplinarity paves way for sustainability solutions

Andreia Nogueira

Increasing investments by academic institutions in interdisciplinarity are not just boosting flexibility and lateral thinking, they are strengthening the ability of universities to support sustainability worldwide. Oxford University Press has just launched an online series of interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences.

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