Climate Education

Mitigation and Adaptation

E-Learning
(CAMEL)
David M. Hassenzahl
July 7, 2010
Council of Environmental
Deans and Directors
 Overview
 History
 January 2008 NCSE meeting
 Subsequent CEDD meeting
 CEDD Summer 2008 at Skamania
 CEDD Summer 2009 at Airlie
 CAMEL Submitted July, funded October
 An Upside Down Opportunity
 Teaching in the disciplines
 Long history
 Clear “ownership”
 Many lessons about what works
• Sometimes learned
• Sometimes not learned
 Climate Education
 Noone has a PhD in climate change
 Many people want to teach climate change
 What they know
 What they don’t know
 Interdisciplinary approach necessary
 Causes
 Consequences
 Solutions
 CAMEL
 Climate, Adaptation, and Mitigation e-
Learning
 Community
 Educators, researchers, students
 Undergraduate materials—all levels and
fields
 Climate change causes, consequences
and solutions
 Four Components
 Content
 Facultydevelopment
 Community development
 Cyberinfrastructure
 Content Goal
 To provide undergraduates with
information to become knowledgeable
about climate change causes,
consequences, and solutions. Becoming
knowledgeable extends from being
conversant in a common terminology to
using the information directly in practical
applications.
 Content
 Collection of vetted materials
 Accessible to undergraduates
 Data, text, graphics, images
 Refereed journal / Encyclopedia of Earth
hybrid
 Arnold Bloom as editor
 Topic area editors
 Reviewers
 Developers
 Faculty Development
 Toprovide guidance, training, and
opportunities for collaboration and
communication to faculty members who
develop materials
 Faculty Development
 Provide support for faculty as they are
building climate change into their curricula
 Apply lessons from in-person experience
and literature to on-line environments
 Web 2.0 tools
 Encyclopedia (data, text, graphics)
 Blogs, commentary, discussion
 Websites, links
 Community Development
 To build a self-sustaining community of
educators that advances the teaching of
climate change causes, consequences,
and solutions
 Community Development
 Opportunities
 Motivationsfor participation
 Norms, standards, and expectations
 Topical Communities
 Regional communities*
 Cyberinfrastructure
 Toevaluate existing infrastructure and
develop novel infrastructure designed to
best achieve the goals of the content,
faculty development, and community
components
 Cyberinfrastructure
 Platforms
 Encyclopedia of Earth
 Trunity / EarthPortal
 Enable
the goals of the other three
components
 Mutual
 Recursive
 Summary
 Lack of climate change education resources
 Materials, people, practices
 Huge opportunity
 Interest, knowledge, educational methods
 CEDD as the CAMEL seed group
 Content
 Faculty Development
 Community
 Cyberinfrastructure