Active Learning Methods are Best for Addressing Sustainability Issues

According to an international team of educators, active learning methods, such as problem-based learning, project-based learning, and challenge-based learning are necessary to provide engineering students with the skills to tackle global issues. Of the above mentioned, challenge-based learning is the most suitable in sustainability education.

Such a learning / teaching approach is very fitting to sustainability education, which, according to various scholars, calls for a contextual, problem-oriented, reflective, interdisciplinary, collaborative, participatory, ethical, and empowered learning environment. In other words, educators have to shift from more traditional teacher-centred education to becoming instructional designers of student-centred education.  

Source: sciencedaily.com