Massive Open Online Courses
I am lead educator on two Massive Open Online Course on the FutureLearn Platform. The first, Ethical Cities - Shaping the Future of Your City, was initially produced in 2016 and funded by RMIT University. Ralph Horne and John Fien are co-lead educators. The course is open for enrollment and over 5,000 learners have completed it. Learner reviews of the course are very positive, scoring 4.9 out of 5.The course is accredited by the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Accreditation Services.
The second course is called Creating Ethical and Sustainable Cities at the Local Level. This course was co-produced by RMIT University and the EIT Community. Ralph Horne and Lisa de Kleyn are co-lead educators. Just over 400 students have completed the course. Again, this course is accredited by CPD Accreditation Services.
CURRENT TEACHING Portfolio
My teaching portfolio at Osaka University currently includes advanced virtual and hybrid courses on Ethical and Regenerative Cities, Effectively Communicating Scientific Research (in collaboration with Donjing Kong from Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Creative Media Project (documentary production in collaboration with Citt Williams and Luis Patron), and Climate Change in Asia Pacific (in collaboration with Subhashni Raj and Makena Coffman from University of Hawaii, Faainu Latu of National University of Samoa, Hiroshi Ohta from Waseda University, Felipe Sandoval from University of Tsukuba and Yuquan Zhang of Shanghai Jiao Tong University).
Students from Waseda University participate in the classes offered through the Asia Pacific Initiative.
My experience with virtual teaching began 2002 when I helped establish a collaborative network of universities delivering educational programs on climate change and sustainable development (which is still in operation).
Past TEACHING ACtivities
At RMIT University, I taught two postgraduate courses on Urbanization Issues in Asia (ARCH1265) and Global Cities/Global Challenges (ARCH1402) and an undergraduate course on Global Environmental Representations (now called Communicating Sustainability (ENVI1137).
At the UNU, I taught two courses: (1) Climate Change in Asia Pacific (2003-2014) and Science Communications (2014- 2021). I produced open education resources on Environmental Impact Assessment (2003) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (2004) and was responsible for the development of the UNU Opencourseware Portal.
I have taught courses on environmental impact assessment at the University of Agder (2009-2015), on environmental politics at Aoyama Gakuin University (2002 to 2004) and on environmental governance at Saitama University (2009).