Abstract
In achieving sustainable development goals, every society and person has the responsibility to attempt to eliminate poverty, protect the environment, and ensure that all people live in peace and prosperity. In order to fulfill this responsibility, it is necessary to organize activities to support sustainable development goals. When the increasing daily use of mobile technologies in education is considered, it is thought that these technologies exhibit important potential in raising awareness for sustainable development goals. Thus, the aim of this study was to develop, implement and evaluate a mobile application for the awareness of university students about sustainable development goals. As a result of this research, the developed mobile application had a positive effect on university students’ awareness of sustainable development goals, and students were glad to use the application.
Highlights
Sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a universal call by The United Nations to eradicate poverty, protect our planet, and ensure that all people live in peace and prosperity
The teaching content of the application includes open-source educational materials distributed by UNDP and it is enriched with the notification, communication, social network support and gamification content of mobile technologies
A remarkable conclusion from the research findings is that university students are pleased to carry out activities that are beneficial to society, such as planting trees or sharing information on sustainable development goals with the help of social networks on a mobile application
Summary
Sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a universal call by The United Nations to eradicate poverty, protect our planet, and ensure that all people live in peace and prosperity. While ending poverty and hunger, raising healthy individuals, quality education and decreasing inequalities are only a few of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP 2030) targets, solving 17 problems to make the earth a habitable place is among them. Since these problems are main global issues to discuss [3], every state, organization and individual has the responsibility to achieve sustainable development goals to solve them
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