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Decision Making for Climate Change
Multi-University Partnership for 100% Online Professional Development
UPCEA 2011 “Doing What Matters”Toronto, CanadaApril 7, 2011
William KotyDirector, Centre for SustainabilityUBC Continuing Studies
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About this talk
� Program
� Certificate in Decision Making for Climate Change
� Jointly offered 100% online by:
� University of Washington Professional and Continuing Education
� University of California Irvine Extension
� Northwestern University School Continuing Studies
� University of British Columbia Continuing Studies
� Main topics of this talk
� Climate change as an educational domain
� Managing a collaboration
� Curriculum
� Administration
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� Winter 2008: Initial proposal
� David Szatmary, Vice Provost, University of Washington Educational Outreach
� July 2008: Partners committed
� Northwestern
� UC – Irvine
� UBC
� UW
� Fall 2008: Program design finalized
� Spring 2009: Program launch
� Fall 2009: First cohort of 25 students
� Spring 2010: Second cohort 30 students
� Fall 2010: 85 students had been accepted into the program
Decision Making for Climate Change | A brief history
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Is global warming really man made?
Am I going to look like a schmuck?
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� US National Academy of Science
http://dels.nas.edu/Climate/Reports-
Academies-Findings
� American Association for the Advancement of
Science
http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/climat
e_change
� UK Royal Society Climate Change
http://royalsociety.org/Energy-Environment-
and-Climate-Change
� US Government's Global Change Research
Program http://www.globalchange.gov
� European Union Climate Change
http://ec.europa.eu/clima/news/index_en.htm
� NASA Global Climate Change
http://climate.nasa.gov
� Chinese Government Climate Change Info-Net
http://www.ccchina.gov.cn/en/
� Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.mofa.go.jp/POLICY/environment/w
arm/cop/index.html
� Government of India, Ministry of Environment
and Forests:
http://www.envfor.nic.in/cc/index.htm
� UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change: http://www.ipcc.ch
� UK Met Office
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange
Organizations that confirm man-made climate change
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� Australian Academy of Sciences
� Royal Society of Canada
� Russian Academy of Sciences
� Academy of Science of South Africa
� Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy
� Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, Mexico
� Deutsche Akademie der NaturforscherLeopoldina, Germany
� Académie des Sciences, France
� Indian National Science Academy
� Science Council of Japan
� Chinese Academy of Sciences
� Indonesian Academy of Sciences
� Royal Irish Academy
� Academy of Sciences Malaysia
� Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand
� Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
� NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)
� National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
� Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
� Royal Society of the United Kingdom (RS)
� American Geophysical Union (AGU)
� American Institute of Physics (AIP) National
� Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
� American Meteorological Society
� Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)
� Australian Academy of Sciences
� American Association of State Climatologists
� Geological Society of America
� American Astronomical Society (AMS)
And a few more…
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� Shock
� “WTF!”
� Denial
� “No, the scientists got it wrong.”
� Bargaining
� “Maybe I can offset my flight to Toronto?”
� Fear
� “I might lose my job!” “What kind of future will my grandchildren have?”
� Anger
� “Damn oil companies.”
� Despair
� “We can’t change. It’s human nature. The system is the way it is.”
� Acceptance
� “We can work together to create a better way.”
Climate change understanding | Seven stages of grief
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"People only accept change in necessity
and see necessity only in crisis.”
~Jean Monnet
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� Four courses
� One from each university
� Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Conversations (UBC)
� Climate science and causes of global warming
� Policy Responses and Options (Northwestern)
� Global look at government policies and options
� Strategic Planning for Adaptation to Climate Change (UW)
� Scenarios, long-term planning, risk assessment, cost analysis
� The Business of Mitigating Climate Change (UC-I)
� Financial, environmental and business aspects of mitigation
� $900 per course
� Each course is 30 hours
� Receive 12 CEUs for completion of the program
About the program | Courses
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Initial target audiences
� Municipal, Regional, State and
Federal Officials
� Environmental Planners
� Environmental Managers
� Corporate Managers
� Utility Managers
� Consultants
Additional ones that showed up
� Educators
� Students, teachers and administrators,
K-12 to lifelong learning
� Natural and applied scientists
� Chemical and biological engineering,
meteorology, ecology, geology, forestry
� Community planners
� Urban design, transportation planning,
community outreach, land-use planning
� Manufacturers
� Supply chain, marketing and PR
� Financial analysts and economists
About the program | Target audiences
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� Upon completion of the program, participants will be able to:
� Understand key concepts and terms surrounding climate change
� Analyze scientific, demographic, economic and political factors
concerning climate change
� Examine government policy development and enforcement in a variety
of countries and contexts
� Assess an organization’s or community’s impact on the environment
� Make strategic decisions about adapting to, and minimizing the effects
of, climate change
About the program | Learning outcomes
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Collaboration ― a dance of fools?
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� It’s scary
� A potential lack of control
� Non-hierarchical
� No direct control over partners
� Carrot and stick controls
non-existent
� Prone to challenges
� Often not perceived as
strategic or core operations
� Out of sight, out of mind
� Problems are not always obvious
My views on collaboration
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� Our collective heads of departments support partnering
� New topical area with little educational history
� Access to subject-matter experts
� Rapid development
� Risk mitigation
� Market reach
� Positioning
Why collaborate on Decision Making for Climate Change?
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� No agreement was ever signed
� No MOU, no partnership contract
� Shared sense of necessity and opportunity
� Informal policy developed
� There was a perception of lots of big issues that would have to be sorted out
� The reality was that normal internal processes within each institution were
adequate
� Each institution had similar functions, though their implementation differed
slightly, but it didn’t matter (for the most part)
� Initial tentativeness towards the collaboration turned out to be mostly ease and
simplicity
Some surprises
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� Partnership “management” is critical
� Shared vision important
� Mutual respect a necessity
� Communication is everything
� Good program coordinators a must
� Passion for shared vision helpful
� Empowered to make decisions
� Program needs to be successful to maintain momentum
Partner insights and conclusions
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Challenges
Solutions
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� Curriculum
� Program design
� Instructors
� Development
� Delivery
� Administration
� Finance
� Marketing
� Student information
Key challenges
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� Course selection
� Knew we had four courses
� Each university indicated their preference
� Instructor selection
� Only one university had a challenge finding subject-matter expertise
� Course development
� Advisory committee worked on high-level design
� Instructors shared course outlines
� Online content versus text books
� Delivery
� Common versus diversity of learning management systems
� Three universities use Moodle and one uses Blackboard
Curriculum challenges
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� Revenue sharing
� Each institution keeps its own revenue
� $900 per course
� Based on averages among institutions
� Exchange rate independence
Administrative challenges | Finance
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� Marketing
� Many questions about how best to market
� Create a partnership website?
� Joint brochure?
� Joint press release?
� Joint budgets?
� Decided to each his own
� No one had to do anything different
� Individual websites and collateral material
� Normal operations with no additional costs
� Though we did do a joint press release to formalize the collaboration
Administrative challenges | Marketing
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� Program applications
� Selected one university’s process
� Small application fee covers cost
� Applications uploaded to shared server
� Course scheduling
� Originally cohort based, once a year
� One course per term per institution
� Moved to four intakes per year (anytime)
� Normally two courses available in any term
� Student tracking
� Each institution keeps its own records
� At the end of each course, completion records compiled into a master list at UW
Administrative challenges | Student Information
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� Assessment and grading
� Differentiated standards
� E.g. UBC has a 60% pass number grade, UC-I a letter grade and UW pass/fail
� Certificate-wide standard was problematic
� Each institution follows its own grading policy
� Generation of diplomas
� A unique certificate was developed containing the logos of all four universities
� Northwestern volunteered to print and distribute
� Sense of community
� Student engagement was a concern
� Student profiles are essential
� Group assignments have become the norm
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Insights
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� Huge growth area (in the future)
� Beginning the anthropocene epoch in geologic time
� Every society, jurisdiction and business will be affected
� Current social-political interregnum in N.A. between denial and acceptance
� Adaptation strategies will be big
� Particularly in areas at risk, e.g. coastal lowlands and desertification
� Mitigation efforts more tenuous
� Dependent on international collaboration
Insights | Climate change education
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When not to worry
� Partners are peers
� Reputation not an issue
� Don’t normally compete
� Money isn’t controversial
� Common pedagogy exists
� Using similar delivery platforms
(LMS)
� When you have good people
involved
When to worry
� Staff are not communicating with
each other (or you)
� Staff turn-over
� Student workload and grading
� Differentiation and perceived
unfairness breeds contempt
� With the details
� Marketing
� Registrations
Insights | Managing a collaboration
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When to collaborate
� Shared values, shared vision exist
� Definable opportunity
� Similar business models
� Expertise isn’t local
� Extend market reach
� Diversity contributes to learning
When not to collaborate
� If revenue maximization is critical
� When large markets exist
� When credibility isn’t an issue
� When trust is not present
� When the boss doesn’t care
� When you’re not having fun
Insights | Deciding to collaborate
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� My favourite climate change websites and blogs
� NASA (http://climate.nasa.gov )
� DeSmogBlog (www.desmogblog.com)
� Real Climate (www.realclimate.org)
� Climate Change (http://chriscolose.wordpress.com)
� Deep Climate (http://deepclimate.org)
� Climate Progress (http://climateprogress.org)
� Climate Now (www.climatenow.net)
� Climate Science Watch (www.climatesciencewatch.org)
Insights | Stay informed
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Questions?
Comments?
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Thank you!