Climate change and society: Toward online pedagogy

Abstract

Climate change, one of the most important social problems of the twenty-first century, challenges pedagogy to incorporate complex themes from social and biophysical sciences. We propose an approach to a course on “Climate Change and Society” grounded in pedagogical research. Integrating the development of higher-level learning skills into course learning objectives, we suggest such a course be implemented online to take advantage of the virtual teaching and learning tools available to educators of climate change and as a way to actively engage the learner, thus using online pedagogy as a key element in learning that spans social and biophysical sciences.