CREATION OF AN ONLINE SELF-STUDY TUTORIAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE LITERACY FOR NON-SPECIALIST AUDIENCES: A STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH

Abstract

As librarians interested in open knowledge, the researchers observed that the climate crises had yet to receive the necessary attention through access to contextual open educational resources (OER) to counter climate misinformation, which was evident during the devastating floods in 2022. Most of the available Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on climate change are either too ‘academic’ or not relatable to non-specialist audiences. Thus, to tackle climate misinformation, the researchers adapted the instructional design method to create an open online tutorial for non-specialist audiences. Five climate advocates at the forefront of climate education in Nigeria were interviewed about the friction points and opportunities of climate education and the feedback shared with three subject experts. The feedback from these advocates, along with the suggestions of the subject experts, was instrumental in the design of an open self-study tutorial. The online tutorial was designed using the OER Commons open authoring tool. The online tutorial is expected to increase the robustness of the open knowledge commons with information on contextual climate change and increase climate change literacy.