Learning about sustainability in a global context of digital transformation in teacher education : exemplary vignettes of experience in webinars

Dittrich, Ann-Kathrin (author), Mathabathe, Kgadi Clarrie (author), Eloff, Irma (author), Agostini, Evi (author)

Webinars are a powerful digital tool for learning about sustainability in a global context. The implementation of different technologies in teacher education, such as webinars, is becoming indispensable due to digital transformation and internationalisation processes. In this context, digital competences are described as key to quality education and a sustainable future. In teacher education, there is little evidence on how digital tools can be used for learning about sustainability. Based on the Teach4Reach project, a two-year international study on the Sustainable Development Goals in teacher education describes learning experi-ences in webinars by presenting selected vignettes. The question is how digitisation can support learning on sustainability in a global context of quality education. We conclude that webinars are a digital tool that supports knowledge building and collaborative learning in an international context but that their specific properties need to be recognised. The vignettes exemplify various challenges and opportunities presented by webinars, such as the fundamental role of facilitators, ease of access to the online environment, different behaviours of participants and un-knowns about the learning outcomes

• Language: English
• Keywords: teacher educators, learning in digital contexts, sustainable development, international webinars, phenomenological vignette research
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 35-58
• Numbering: Vol. 15, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179232
• UDC: 37.011.3-051
• ISSN on article: 2232-2647
• DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.1688
• COBISS.SI-ID: 193758979

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• Publication date in RUL: 09.02.2026

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• Title: CEPS Journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal = revija Centra za študij edukacijskih strategij
• Publisher: Pedagoška fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2232-2647
• COBISS.SI-ID: 254029824

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Učenje o trajnostnosti v globalnem kontekstu digitalne preobrazbe v izobraževanju učiteljev : vinjete, izbrane za zgled, na podlagi izkušenj s spletnimi seminarji

Abstract

Spletni seminarji so učinkovito digitalno orodje za učenje o trajnostnosti v globalnem kontekstu. Implementacija različnih tehnologij v izobraževanju učiteljev, kot so spletni seminarji, postaja nepogrešljiva zaradi digitalne transformacije in procesov internacionalizacije. V tem kontekstu so digitalne kompetence opisane kot ključne za kakovostno izobraževanje in trajnostno prihodnost. V izobraževanju učiteljev je malo dokazov o tem, kako je mogoče digitalna orodja uporabiti za uče-nje o trajnostnosti. Dveletna mednarodna študija o ciljih trajnostnega razvoja v izobraževanju učiteljev, ki temelji na projektu Teach4Reach, s predstavitvijo izbranih vinjet opisuje učne izkušnje v spletnih seminar-jih. Vprašanje je, kako lahko digitalizacija podpira učenje o trajnostnosti v globalnem kontekstu kakovostnega izobraževanja. Ugotavljamo, da so spletni seminarji digitalno orodje, ki podpira pridobivanje znanja in sodelovalno učenje v mednarodnem kontekstu, vendar je treba prepoznati njihove posebne lastnosti. Vinjete ponazarjajo različne izzive in priložnosti, ki jih predstavljajo spletni seminarji, kot so: temeljna vloga moderatorjev, preprost dostop do spletnega okolja, različno vedenje udeležencev in pomanjkanje podatkov o učnih izidih.

• Keywords: izobraževalci učiteljev, učenje v digitalnih kontekstih, trajnostni razvoj, mednarodni spletni seminarji, fenomenološka raziskava vinjet, trajnost (ekologija)