Creating sustainable futures/CSF104/2016 Session0

Dear Creating Sustainable Futures participants Welcome to the Creating Sustainable Futures course, hosted at the OERu. We aim to show how sustainable futures are entirely possible. Many projects once deemed impossible are thriving. The tools and processes can support this.

These instructions are for:. The course was developed to build capacity in Creating Sustainable Futures (CSF).

The OERu envisions a world where all learners will have more affordable access to higher education.

Introductory Overview
During this introductory session you will familiarise yourself with the course site and meet the course facilitators. You will also establish your personal learning environment and introduce yourself using your course blog.

Course site: http://course.oeru.org/CSF104/ (bookmark this page).

Please share the gift of knowledge and help us by completing the optional OERu new participant survey. This information will be used to assist the OERu with the future design of free courses with pathways to achieving credible credentials.

Resources for this session

 * Start here
 * Orientation
 * Setting up your learning journal

Important links

 * Course syllabus
 * Aggregated course feed

Welcome aboard and we look forward to seeing you online!

Your facilitators

Steve Henry, Director/Lecturer, Centre for Sustainable Practice, Otago Polytechnic Simon Harvey, Programme and Development Manager, The Natural Step NZ, and Alexa Forbes, Sustainable Practice adviser, Centre for Sustainable Practice, Otago Polytechnic

We acknowledge the funding support of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO which supported the development of the course materials and the open source technologies we are using to enable educators around the world to widen access to open online courses using OER. We are trialling a few new technologies with the 2016 offering of the course and you may encounter a few teething problems. We thank you in advance for your understanding and feedback to help us improve the technologies.