Abstract
Understanding global environmental policies addresses the aim of educating individuals to become environmentally literate on pertinent issues related to sustainable development. Online classes were established recently in most public universities in Vietnam to address the educational backlash brought by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This case study was conducted to serve as baseline information on the effectiveness of using online platforms to teach environmental policies among undergraduate Environmental Science and Management students. The qualitative-quantitative responses elicited from semi-structured interviews, online classroom observation, and survey of 11 Filipino and 8 Vietnamese students have confirmed the role of learner-instructor, learner-learner, and learner-content interactions in creating an impactful online experience from students usually stereotyped as passive learners. In spite of some technical and physical challenges identified in this study, utilizing online platforms have positively helped undergraduate students to raise their personal environmental knowledge related to many global environmental policies and environmental consciousness towards building a more sustainable future. Hence, synchronous online learning is a pedagogy that can be adapted by most Vietnamese educators.
Highlights
As a by-product of rapid globalization, environmental issues i.e. climate protection, sustainable solid waste management, and conservation of biodiversity, which goes beyond national borders have risen (Lenschow et al, 2016)
The Southeast Asian Environmental Science and Management cohort, that was used to evaluate the effectiveness of online platform based on student engagement and motivation to educate them on specialized or professional courses like environmental policies, confirms the three types of interactions proposed by Moore (1993) is needed in creating a meaningful online learning experience
The Southeast Asian cohort of this study identify how significant is the role of their instructor in making their online experience interesting
Summary
As a by-product of rapid globalization, environmental issues i.e. climate protection, sustainable solid waste management, and conservation of biodiversity, which goes beyond national borders have risen (Lenschow et al, 2016). This is addressed by international cooperation that covers the development of guiding decision frameworks in a form of international environmental policies (Galaz & Hahn, 2008; Merill et al, 2017).
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