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Centre for Excellent IT Education, Excited, aims at bringing Norway in the forefront of innovative IT education and making IT an increasingly more attractive study choice for young people. These webinars aim at creating arenas for discussions and reflection among the teaching staff. Each webinar includes a presentation and a Q&A session.

Title: Sustainability in computing education - experiences from 10+ years of integration and development
Date and time: Friday, 14 March, 13:00-14:00 CET
Place: Teams (all registered participants will receive a link prior to the seminar)
Target group: Teachers in computing in higher education
Language: English
Registration: please fill in the registration form

Abstract: In this presentation Elina Eriksson will present work on integrating sustainability in computing education, and more specifically in the Media Technology Engineering programme at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Elina and her colleagues have explored ways to expand education through games, systems thinking and lately through addressing emotions and bringing more of the whole human into the classroom. Elina will present an overview of what she and colleagues have been doing in the introductory course to Sustainability and Media Technology, as well as give some examples from the newly started master’s programme Sustainable Digitalisation.

About the speaker: Elina Eriksson is an Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction with a specialization in Sustainability at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and a Docent in Regenerative Design. She is affiliated with the Climate Action Centre and Digital Futures at KTH and she is the co-leader of the research group Sustainable Futures Lab. Elina’s research is often action-oriented and with a focus on how to make the future more tangible and actionable. In this work futures imaginaries plays an important role. She teaches about sustainability and ICT and conducts research on how to integrate sustainability in computing education.  She is also an Art of Hosting practitioner and have extensive experience of both on site, online and hybrid dialogue formats.