Enhancing graduate employment prospects by embedding sustainability and digital skills into the curriculum

Abstract

Employers are seeking work-ready graduates (Carlisle et al., 2021a) with digital (Jopp, 2020; Vuorikari, Kluzer & Punie, 2022) and sustainability skills (Bianchi, Pisiotis & Cabrera Giraldez, 2022). Important to solving sustainability problems (Alexander et al., 2019), digital skills are also essential in a digitally-mediated environment (Oberländer et al., 2020). Embedded into modules, these examples deliver against learning objectives and indicative content, while serving to enhance student experience and employment prospects.

Experiential learning is defined as knowledge “…created through the transformation of experience” (Kolb, 1984, p. 38). Activities across modules have included checking the level of sustainability of products by scanning bar-codes with an App; purchasing items for a homeless charity and discussing difficult choices (i.e. heat or eat); risk and disaster interactive simulations, and authentic assessments using digital software.

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