Integration of UN Sustainable Development Goals within multiple preexisting higher education programmes

This session will present a case analysis of how the UN Sustainable Development Goals have been integrated successfully into multiple, pre-existing, Grade 4, higher education programmes at an institution in Dubai. The session leader will share experiences from following a constructivist pedagogy with significant project-based learning elements. This session will also demonstrate how SDGs have been integrated into summative assessments across two different modules between September 2015 and April 2020. Evidence and examples of success based on the criteria of the Higher Education Academy of the UK (reach, value and impact) will be presented as well as the tools that were specially developed or adapted to support the delivery of learning content.

A critical analysis of related literature will also be shared, including Education for Sustainable for Development (ESD) and Environmental Education (EE), and recent changes to the Times Higher Education rankings to include the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as a criteria by which students may select their higher education learning experience.