This course examines the challenges that cities will face and strategies they can use to prepare for the impacts of climate change. Particular attention is paid to the presence of global disparities, the needs of vulnerable populations and resource constrained locales, and the ways in which local government and community-based activities can achieve equitable levels of climate-readiness.
Type of Material:
Opencourse website
Recommended Uses:
It may be used for online instruction and self-paced study.
Technical Requirements:
Google chrome and Firefox were used to review course. Downloaded files are offered and may require a decompression software to unzip.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Students will better understand global disparities in climate change practices.
Students will be able to identify ways in which local governments and community based activities can achieve equitable levels of climate readiness.
Students will better understand the needs of vulnerable populations and resource constrained locales due to climate impact.
Students will explore the challenges that cities will face and strategies they can use to prepare for the impacts of climate change.
Target Student Population:
Upper Level College, Graduate, General Education, Environmental Science
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
At minimum, students should have completed undergraduate courses related to urban studies, urban sociology, urban geography, or environmental studies. MIT students must get permission to take the course.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
Quality readings and assignments for a 12-week graduate course. The course is a resource for teachers, and an online class for MIT students.
Concerns:
Weekly objectives and guided reading questions would aid self-paced study. Explicit emphasis on theoretical perspectives and approaches and equality issues (e.g., environment racism).
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Good scaffolding (course organization) of readings and assignments/projects to allow for more effective graduate student learning. Good emphasis on linking to professional practice. There is a large amount of information that makes it very usable.
Concerns:
Some of the links require sign up and sign in to read the articles. Some require memberships to view the articles and others require a purchase of PDF. One must consider the cost for course resources. Articles that fall into these requirements are not offered in the download version as would be expected.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Materials are accessible via webite to ensure universal design for equitable learning. Clear creative commons attribution for materials on the site. Files can be downloaded. Information and files can be modified, remixed and reused with OCW cited as the source. A file decompression software may be needed to unzip the download.
Concerns:
There are drawbacks to the sign in and sign up requirements for course resources. As an open resource course some resources through OER providers could replace those requirements.
Creative Commons:
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