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Universidade Aberta (UAb) is the public Portuguese distance education
university. It has around 6,000 students (full-time and exclusively engaged in distance
education) and 340 employees (academic and administrative staff). UAb has
focused on the quality of its service and has been recognised by several national and
international entities, for example through its good practices in the areas of innovation
and sustainability in higher education in 2019. This chapter presents the results
from the 64 survey respondents. The main focus of the university is on cross-cutting
themes, followed by social issues, environmental issues, and economic issues. The
contribution is medium and the strength is medium. The ranking of the competences
shows that Critical thinking and analysis is the highest, followed by Inter-disciplinary
work. The ranking of the pedagogical approaches resulted in Project- or Problembased
learning and Case studies were the highest, followed by Participatory action
research. The correlation analysis showed that Mind and concept maps, Lecturing,
Case studies and Participatory Action Research developed the most competences.
The competences most developed were Personal involvement, Communication and
use of media, and Strategic action. The results show that improvements could be
realised to develop the whole set of sustainability competences in the degrees of
Universidade Aberta, and more sustainability oriented pedagogical approaches
could be considered in order to improve the university’s contribution to interdisciplinary
issues and Sustainable Development Goals.
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Springer International Publishing