ESD CoP: Rethinking Learning - Risks and Benefits of AI

19th Sep 2025 12:30 – 14:00

Join us at our next Education for Sustainable network meeting - our first official ESD Community of Practice Meeting (previously called Topic Support Network)

Through various speakers and discussions, we will address learning in times of AI, and have a look at this through an ESD lens.

What will happen on the day?
This meeting will be chaired by Scott Strachan, our ESD CoP Convenor from the University of Strathclyde.
We're excited to have three excellent speakers join us, followed by breakout groups and discussions where you can connect with others.

Our speakers and what they'll talk about: 
 

• Philip Hanna, Dean of Education, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queens University Belfast  will address some of the social and environmental implications of AI, the need to acknowledge the ubiquity of GenAI in education contexts, how it impacts learning and how we can use it responsibly/model responsible use.

 

• Maria Toro-Troconis, Founder & Director (ALDESD) and Blended Learning Specialist (University of Cambridge) and Romas Malevicius, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Marketing at King's College London will talk about the Generative AI coach they developed and evaluated. This coach is based on the CoDesignS framework for ESD and supports teaching staff to develop their lesson plans with a holistic ESD approach. Including live demo of the coach!

 

• Maria Zahariea, English, Maths, Essential Digital Skills & ESOL Teacher at Step2Skills (Hertfordshire) will share how her teaching methods and style help her learners to develop connections to their peers, their place, and their community. Competency-based, humanity-centred, real-world learning approaches like hers have long been at the heart of ESD, and show how ESD can overcome some of the challenges posed by GenAI in more traditional knowledge-based learning approaches.

Meta theme
Kindness will be a meta-theme throughout or next three CoP meetings - join us to find out more and be part of a kind community and audience.


All practitioners from EAUC member institutions are welcome to join this event - whether you're from a university, college or other education provider.

Please note this meeting will take place on MS Teams. Book this event on the EAUC website →