Implementing a class in Climate Change Economics: A case study how online resources facilitate interdisciplinarity in higher education

Michael Lüken (), Zurab Abramishvili () and Norberto Pignatti
Additional contact information
Michael Lüken: International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET), Tbilisi, Georgia
Zurab Abramishvili: International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET), Tbilisi, Georgia

No 004-21, Working Papers from International School of Economics at TSU, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia

Abstract: Tackling human-made Climate Change is among the main global challenges today and in the coming decades. Due to the interdisciplinary structure of the topic, the integration of Climate Change into the relevant higher education programs still lags behind. Online teaching resources such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) might contribute significantly to overcoming this deficiency. In this paper, we describe the design of a class in “Climate Change Economics†and how we implemented it in a BA program at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) in Tbilisi (Georgia). Our main focus is the integration of a MOOC on Climate Change and further online material as main teaching resources. Our main conclusion is that the MOOC, supplemented with videos on special topics, is a suitable tool to facilitate an interdisciplinary introduction into Climate Change within an academic class in, e.g., Economics. The results of our evaluation show that online resources are highly motivational for students and encourage an efficient studying process. Based on our experiences, we offer recommendations for further strengthening Climate Change as a topic in higher education. We provide suggestions on how online resources such as MOOCs might contribute to that aim.

Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2021
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-edu and nep-env
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published

Downloads: (external link)
https://iset.ge/files/wp_04_21_Climate_Change_Economics.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tbs:wpaper:21-004

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from International School of Economics at TSU, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).