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E-learning and Environmental Issues
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2001
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Metropolis
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In the past five years sustainability and environmental management issues have been introduced to numerous academic and vocational curricula in Switzerland. Examples illustrating this trend are the information sciences, tourism industry and the financial sector, where courses are held designed to train professionals. These opportunities are often used to introduce new learning techniques such as interdisciplinary settings of teachers and students, NICT and open-distance learning, case-study approaches or workshops based on training or educational games. The complex nature of environmental issues requires specific teaching aids. From a constructivist point of view, concrete problem orientation is among the most important objectives. Further educational objectives for which the role of e-learning is discussed in this paper includestructuring complex informationas in real life situations, authenticity, multiperspectivityandmulticoding. The discussion is based on three examples of e-learning: a workshop using a software for life cycle analysis at university-level in Tampere (Finland), a student-based project at a college in Zürich using the VISUM-platform and a VISUM-based course on LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) at the university of applied science in Winterthur (Switzerland).