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About this workshop template

  • Use the workshop plan to discuss, reflect and prioritize collective action within your organisation or field
  • You could use this template to run a workshop with relevant colleagues / teams.
  • It is designed to be used with the lesson plan. Please make a copy and edit it to suit your needs.
  • See the Ed Tech Climate Toolkit for details on how to share the output from your workshop.

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Digital Education ​and ​�the climate and ecological emergency​�​�Working together to make an impact​

[list names of workshop facilitators]

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Workshop background

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  • Climate positive change and actions are needed, including in the Digital Education sector.

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  • We want to prioritise collective action over individual action as we are stronger together. 

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  • Currently, the sector is just beginning to engage with the climate crisis.

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Workshop purpose

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Help and support - to encourage reflection on how to influence structural change

Collaboration – highlighting that we are more effective working together across sectors

Avoid duplication – we share ideas and resources to ensure that institutions don't reinvent the wheel (as with GenAI)

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Workshop outcomes

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  • Reflect on our potential spheres of influence

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  • Crowdsource what: 
    • we already have
    • we would like but is missing

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  • Start planning: 
    • what could help us move forward e.g. resources
    • how we could collaborate to increase our influence and impact

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What is your sphere of influence?

 Team

Department

Institution

Sector

You

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Digital Education – areas of influence

Digital Education – roles / remits

Accessibility and inclusivity

Assessment and Feedback

Committees and working groups

Curriculum / Learning Design

Educational Media

Institutional Policy

IT systems (inc. VLE)

Learning and Teaching approaches

Learning Technology equipment

Physical Learning Spaces

Staff support, guidance and training

Student support, guidance and training

Carbon Literacy

Mapping student journey and impacts

Carbon Impact of GenAI

Research eg online classes v f2f

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What is already happening/out there?

Toolkits and guidance (internal and external)

Institutionally supported policies, working groups, projects 

Informal activities and discussions

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Examples of what counts as 'already out there'?

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Bottom-up:

Informal and/or not institutionally supported

Top-down:

Formal and institutionally supported 

Conversations with colleagues (informal) 

Policies and/or regulations

Self or group-initiated projects or events

e.g. today's Islands of Innovation session, other similar sessions at conferences, research, reading groups

Projects

Sharing resources with colleagues 

such as events or other resources which are not organised by your institution 

e.g. the IPCC reports

Committees, working groups, etc.

Climate-related considerations during non-climate related meetings or projects 

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Processes

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CPD related activities e.g. toolkits, guides, workshops

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Communications

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Activity 1: Crowdsourcing what we have �(10 mins)

Individually fill in the document: 

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    • What are you/and or your institution doing
    • What resource or tools are already out there? 
    • What’s missing? 

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Feel free to research if you haven't thought about any of this before.

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How does it fit together? (5mins)

In your break-out room: 

  • review the table
  • share your thoughts about what we should prioritise?

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Activity 2: What we want

Q: What would be your top priority for collaboration across HE sectors internationally?

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Q. What resource(s) and/ or initiatives do we need to develop to support us all in our institutions? Examples: special interest group, mailing list, any other ideas?

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Useful resources and reading

Monash University, Australia, recorded on Thursday 23rd June 2022 for University of Edinburgh as part of the Centre for Research in Digital Education Seminars Series. �Direct link: https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/79280571/1_6u9a41zh/1_l7anxlgx (58mins) �