Material Detail

This open courseware online course is a digital walkabout on the primary concepts, principles, and issues of sustainability. The course features almost 50 "doculectures" filmed in a cinematic style, crowd sourced by over 100 filmmakers and scholars across the globe. Produced under CC 3.0 this experimental pedagogy uses vibrant HD imagery and surround-sound optimized for headphones, with discrete virtual and spacial elements to transport the student into the material by using advanced concepts in cognitive neuroscience. The content is designed to inform and inspire. This course is intended for upper division or graduate level university students, and the content is normalized for all disciplinary backgrounds. Rather than lectures, the course has eight Chapters, each with several Parts that detail the Chapter topic area. This course is an experiment in PowerPoint-free courseware, and the course material is presented by information intensive doculectures filmed on-location or in a studio. The information intensity of these doculectures captures that of a well-developed university lecture, but with the dynamic sights and sounds of an HD documentary to enhance learning. All instructional doculectures are downloadable to mobile devices. The doculecture "A Planet in Peril" has received a prestigious award from an international film festival.