Abstract:

The prevalence of misinformation in scientific fields is a growing concern among younger individuals, including university students. In response, the COMTEDEA Teaching Innovation Group (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) has endeavored to develop open knowledge resources through the use of OER (Open Educational Resources) with the aim of promoting Media and Information Literacy and enhancing the students' abilities as citizens committed to sustainability. The project extends the scope of the “Open Educational Knowledge and Practices Environment”, hosted in Classroom Ciberimaginario”, generating an ecosystem of open content publishing environments, which are aimed at promoting critical thinking about sustainability and climate action (Royal Decree 822/2021). The contents, linked to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, 12 and 13, will be integrated into the curricular development of the Teaching Innovation Group (GID) teachers' subjects through innovation activities, focused on active methodologies, which will promote the creation of open content by the students themselves.

The action seeks to:
(1) To expand the possibilities of Open Knowledge as a tool for improving teaching-learning processes.
(2) To engage students with a meaningful learning process.
(3) To improve their perception of the degree itself and the social transfer value of the knowledge acquired.
(4) To generate a compendium of resources, materials and thematic instructional design. The sheets on sustainability and climate action are available under the Creative Commons 4.0-Attribution license, allowing for their reuse by citizens, teachers, and students of any educational level within the framework of the ClimateWarriors initiative.
(5) This contribution will facilitate students' involvement in the social change towards the circular economy.

During the development of the project, an open learning methodology will be adopted, linked to a project-based learning structure and with a clear achievement of results by the students.

The Climate Warriors environment has commenced hosting the inaugural open educational resources prepared by students from a range of academic disciplines at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. This initiative is set to expand the volume of content throughout the 2023-24 academic year. In collaboration with "Classroom Ciberimaginario" this new space endeavors to establish an ecosystem of digital publishing environments that houses various content resources pertaining to sustainability issues, with a particular focus on SDG 11, 12, and 13. These resources are created by teachers participating in the innovation action. Its integration into the activities of the 2023/34 academic year allows students from different degrees and subjects to enhance the teaching-learning processes in a cross-disciplinary manner, equipping them with the skills to become engaged citizens and contributors to climate action and the circular economy.

As for the expected results, they are summarised in a wide range of resources and transversal materials on sustainability and climate action, the generation of an open learning ecosystem, and the involvement of students in the creation of content related to social change in their perception of climate change. Furthermore, it is anticipated that the implementation of open learning will facilitate students' engagement in a meaningful learning process, which will in turn facilitate the transfer of knowledge and skills to other contexts.

Keywords:

Open knowledge, disinformation, climate change, educommunication.