Learning Experientially for Corporate Contribution to Global Sustainable Development: International Applications of the WikiRate Project

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An exploration of student learning for sustainability through the WikiRate student engagement project

“…According to Warwick, Wyness & Conway (2017) there is a relative gap in pedagogical research into sustainability education innovations in business schools from a student perspective, and this paper seeks to make a contribution in this area. An educator's perspective on the use of WikiRate can be found in other work by the authors (see Perkiss et al, 2018;Perkiss et al 2020).…”

Advancing Sustainability Education in Business Studies through Digital Service Learning

“…Impactful learning about sustainability "won't happen though if we simply tell students about it, or we leave them to their own devices to read it in a book or on the Internet" (Dean et al 2018b, 403). Teaching sustainability requires an approach that is crossdisciplinary, discovery-based and experiential (Bayerlein 2015;Dean et al 2018b;Perkiss et al 2019). Purposeful design of pedagogical activities is essential to engage students in learning that is experienced first-hand, has personal meaning, and that can translate into effective social change.…”

“…Recently, educators across business disciplines have advocated for experiential and active learning pedagogies for teaching sustainability education (Dean et al 2018b;Perkiss et al 2019;Shephard et al 2019). Experiential learning involves more than participation in an activity itself, it involves iterative processes of reviewing, reflecting and planning for action as a result of engagement (Kolb and Kolb 2017).…”

“…To effectively teach sustainability, an approach that is cross-disciplinary, discovery-based and experiential is required (Dean et al 2018b;Perkiss et al 2019). This paper reported on a global partnership to evaluate student learning of sustainability through an emerging pedagogical approach, digital service learning (DSL).…”

“…As a result, academics across institutions worldwide have embedded student-engagement projects that use WikiRate in curricula (WikiRate 2020; Dean et al 2018b). The WikiRate classroom project has been identified and analysed as an experiential learning construct (see Dean et al 2018b andPerkiss et al 2019). However, it is also a prosocial project, with a community service component, and thus an example of DSL.…”