RT Journal Article
T1 Improvement on social representation of climate change through a knowledge-based MOOC in spanish
A1 Ferrari, Enzo
A1 Ballegueer, Anne-Marie
A1 Fuertes, Miguel Angel
A1 Herrero, Pablo
A1 Delgado, Laura
A1 Corrochano, Diego
A1 Andrés-Sánchez, Santiago
A1 Bisquert i Pérez, Kylyan Marc
A1 García Vinuesa, Antonio
A1 Meira Cartea, Pablo
A1 Martínez, Fernando
A1 Ruiz, Camilo
K1 Sustainable development
K1 Education
K1 Climate change
K1 Professional development
K1 MOOC
K1 Social representation
AB Climate Change is the most important threat to our society and all species on Earth. Large alterations in the climate are affecting every aspect of our society and in order to limit this impact we must decarbonize the economy before 2050. Although science presents solid evidence on the magnitude of the problem and outlines precisely the consequences, people do not act accordingly and do not consider this issue a priority for their survival. The reason behind this paradox might be a non-appropriate Social Representation of Climate Change in society as the Social Representation conditions and forms the response of the society. In this paper, we extend previous investigations of how this Social Representation is formed in order to find ways to improve it through a Massive Online Open Course on the Science of Climate Change. Using a validated questionnaire, we investigated the knowledge dimension of the Social Representation of Climate Change in a group of students of a MOOC on Climate Change. A pre- and posttest revealed general improvements in all the categories that were considered in this study. A detailed analysis showed different degrees of improvement for different groups, providing new insights in the efficiency of knowledge-based online courses. Well designed Massive Online Open Courses, based on scientific evidence, targeted to the general public might improve the Social Representation of Climate Change, which may in turn trigger awareness and an effective mobilization to address this important and urgent topic
PB MDPI
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20928
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20928
LA eng
NO Ferrari, E., Ballegeer, A.-M., Fuertes, M. A., Herrero, P., Delgado, L., Corrochano, D., Andrés-Sánchez, S., et al. (2019). Improvement on Social Representation of Climate Change through a Knowledge-Based MOOC in Spanish. Sustainability, 11(22), 6317. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11226317
NO This research was funded by the project 2017/00287/001 of the Fundación Biodiversidad del Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente (España)
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026