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COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development teaching
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis, one which also infuences the ways
sustainability is being taught at universities. This paper undertakes an analysis of the extent
to which COVID-19 as a whole and the lockdown it triggered in particular, which has led
to the suspension of presence-based teaching in universities worldwide and infuenced
teaching on matters related to sustainable development. By means of a worldwide survey
involving higher education institutions across all continents, the study has identifed a number of patterns, trends and problems. The results from the study show that the epidemic has
signifcantly afected teaching practices. The lockdowns have led to a surge in the use of
on-line communication tools as a partial replacement to normal lessons. In addition, many
faculty teaching sustainability in higher education have strong competencies in digital literacy. The sampled higher education educations have—as a whole—adequate infrastructure to continue to teach during the lockdowns. Finally, the majority of the sample revealed
that they miss the interactions via direct face-to-face student engagement, which is deemed
as necessary for the efective teaching of sustainability content. The implications of this
paper are two-fold. Firstly, it describes how sustainability teaching on sustainable development has been afected by the lockdown. Secondly, it describes some of the solutions
deployed to overcome the problem. Finally, the paper outlines the fact that the COVID-19
pandemic may serve the purpose of showing how university teaching on sustainability may
be improved in the future, taking more advantage of modern information technologies.
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COVID-19 shutdown Online teaching HEIs Sustainability teaching