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How to Use This Course
This course is designed to support users from different roles and in different contexts to apply the resources, tools, and insights in their own settings.Â
Both instructors (faculty, academic teaching staff, etc.) and practitioners (operational staff, administrative leaders, etc.) can use the information from this course to facilitate the design of interventions to promote sustainable consumption behaviors on their campus and beyond. While the course provides information for use in developing and implementing interventions, it also provides an example and starting point to be adjusted for how to teach about this topic in active and experiential ways. We suggest three primary ways to use this course successfully in your own role and context:
Adapt and Apply: Find ways to use the materials by adjusting them and integrating them into your own activities so that the course supports you to achieve your learning and impact objectives
Facilitate and Train: Determine which resources, activities, and examples can be used to support the learning of others in academic or applied settings
Engage and Collaborate: Leverage the materials to create opportunities to work with project partners and bring together teams (including faculty, operational staff, students, and other stakeholders) that can work together to promote sustainability
Suggestions for Instructors and Practitioners
Instructors
Instructors
Tips for instructors:
Recognize that sustainability education is more about approach and process than content. Consider looking at your syllabus and reflecting on the teaching strategies and learning activities that you are using and how they might be incorporated into learning about intervention design.
Find relevant themes, topics, and tools in the course that can be useful in your discipline. Be creative in linking or integrating content to the objectives and activities in your course, considering small steps for connection to support broader integration into your course.
Remember that the intervention process (and learning about it) is an iterative process that can involve failure, yet this process can lead to learning and impact. Approaches like contract-grading, which assess learners through effort and completion to reduce anxiety and stress over performance in situations such as intervention design and applied learning projects.
Practitioners
Practitioners
Tips for practitioners:
Recognize the intervention design process as a solution-oriented approach that focuses on addressing a sustainability challenge. This can be applied to a range of topics beyond the ones discussed throughout this course.
Find tools, resources, and activities that can help you and your team to clarify your project objectives and strategies. Be creative in how you use these materials to aid your process and bring in others for a collaborative effort.
Remember that the intervention process can be demanding and require long-term commitment, flexibility, and vision. Approaches and tips presented in the "Insights" section of each module might be helpful to consider the specifics of your situation and how you might design interventions and strategies to navigate the challenges that arise along the way.
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