A Collaborative Learning Activity to Analyze the Sustainability of an Innovation Using PESTLE

Maria José Casañ, Marc Alier and Ariadna Llorens
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Maria José Casañ: School of Informatics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Marc Alier: School of Informatics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Ariadna Llorens: Institute of Sciences of Education (ICE), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 16, 1-16

Abstract: This paper presents a collaborative learning activity for courses in engineering degrees or master’s programs that cover the subject and skills of sustainability, social compromise, and ethics for engineering. The activity consists of performing a multidisciplinary analysis of a case of study, which presents a technology or innovation, to detect and debate possible issues and solutions. This learning activity is based on the PESTLE methodology that is used to analyze the political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental aspects of a technology or innovation. The PESTLE analysis is implemented using the jigsaw collaborative learning technique. This learning activity can be completed in two sessions of two hours. To validate its usefulness, the learning activity was applied for two semesters in a study on two courses: one in Informatics Engineering Degree and the other one in the Master Degree of Sustainability at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, with very good results.

Keywords: teaching; sustainability skills; social compromise skills; PESTLE methodology; collaborative learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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