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Small Grant ESD Interdisciplinary Project Report 2010/11 PROJECT ABSTRACT AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Problem-based Learning in Virtual Interactive Educational Worlds for Sustainable Development (PREVIEW-Sustain) Simon Bignell University of Derby June 2011 Page | 1 Small Grant ESD Interdisciplinary Project Report 2010/11 Abstract This development project built on an earlier JISC-funded collaboration with the Higher Education Academy’s Psychology Network, which developed immersive collaborative tutorials and materials in the 3D online virtual world Second Life. In the first project of its kind, teaching materials and methods were reused and adapted to introduce the ‘Education for Sustainable Development’ (ESD) agenda to academic staff and students across different subject groups. By using a variety of innovative virtual worlds techniques, including customised problem-based learning scenarios and web videos filmed in a virtual world (machinima), the team developed a series of brief learning scenarios that highlighted the motivational and behavioural factors that impact on sustainability (e.g. resources, recycling and energy efficiency). Executive Summary In 2005, the UK Government’s sustainable development (SD) strategy placed strong emphasis on the role that education can play in both increasing awareness in young people about SD and giving them the skills to actualise SD. It placed the focus firmly on the development of ‘sustainability literacy’ for UK graduates. This was also mirrored by the United Nation’s pledge in the same year to a ‘Decade of Education for Sustainable Development’. Given this remit and agenda within UK higher education, it is surprising that there a