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Sustainable ICT Courses are being introduced at the vocational training level and more rarely at undergraduate and graduate levels. This paper reports on a graduate level Sustainable ICT Course run for the first time in 2009, as part of a global professional training program. The same course has been run at an Australian university and later adapted for North America by a Canadian university. The course had enrolments from industry based participants from both private and public sector organisation, as well as full time university students, with corporate Green ICT strategies being produced as course assignments. This paper discusses the student population and presents the course structure and assessment. An empirical evaluation of student responses, conducted at the end of the course, has yet to be completed, but some impressions of the differences in responses from graduate students and external participants is presented.

A meta analysis of of other research papers in the field. One of the points raised that particularly interested me was around evaluating the 'success' of TEL. With institutions seeing DL as an efficient, potentially profitable approach to education, the way we assess how we meet the learners' needs and the benefits of adopting this approach as opposed to other methods is key/ v interesting.

A good article with some tips on how to get a bit more out of project based learning. This links to some concenrs expressed in PBL Group 3 about engagement and involvement in distance learning by students which is the topic of the scenario we are exploring.