An exploration of student learning for sustainability through the WikiRate student engagement project

Alec Wersun; Bonnie Amelia Dean; Richard Mills; Stephanie Perkiss; Pilar Acosta; Stephanos Anastasiadis; Belinda Gibbons; Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez; Theresa Heithaus; Hannah Jun; Roman H. Mesicek; Leopold Bayerlein

doi:10.1016/j.ijme.2019.100313

An exploration of student learning for sustainability through the WikiRate student engagement project

Alec Wersun, Bonnie Amelia Dean, Richard Mills, Stephanie Perkiss, Pilar Acosta, Stephanos Anastasiadis, Belinda Gibbons, Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Theresa Heithaus, Hannah Jun, Roman H. Mesicek, Leopold Bayerlein

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This paper uses student perspectives on learning to highlight the potential contribution of the WikiRate platform to develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and sustainability mindsets of future business leaders. WikiRate originates from a
project with a mission of "crowdsourcing better companies" throughanalysis of their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. The project identified a need for an open public repository of data tracking companies' ESG performance, on the grounds that while corporate social responsibility reporting is conducted in public, there are barriers to accessing information in a standardised format. WikiRate provides an open repository for data along with tools for analysis, allowing business students to participate in its interpretation. Seeing potential for this pedagogical innovation to help develop the next generation of responsible managers and leaders, educators in business schools in five countries carried out a survey of 1575 student users of WikiRate to explore what they had learned. Analysis of responses from 549 students using a grounded theory approach found that WikiRate extended students' knowledge, skills and attitudes on several dimensions. The findings suggest that use of WikiRate is a valuable addition to a growing number of open source platforms designed to contribute to the development of competences for sustainability

Original language	English
Article number	100313
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Management Education
Volume	17
Issue number	3
Early online date	13 Aug 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2019.100313
Publication status	Published - Nov 2019

Keywords

knowledge for sustainability; Skills for sustainability; Attitudes for sustainability; Developing a sustainability mindset; Pedagogies for PRME; Pedagogical innovation for responsible management education.

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Strategy and Management

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Teaching sustainability: complexity and compromises
Anastasiadis, S., Perkiss, S., Dean, B. A., Bayerlein, L., Gonzalez-Perez, M. A., Wersun, A., Acosta, P., Jun, H. & Gibbons, B., 20 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education. 13, 1, p. 272-286 15 p.
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Learning experientially for corporate contribution to global sustainable development: international applications of the WikiRate project
Wersun, A., 6 Sept 2019, The Palgrave Handbook of Learning and Teaching International Business and Management. Gonzalez-Perez, M. A., Lynden, K. & Taras, V. (eds.). 1 ed. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 697-720 24 p.
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Wersun, A., Dean, B. A., Mills, R., Perkiss, S., Acosta, P., Anastasiadis, S., Gibbons, B., Gonzalez-Perez, M. A., Heithaus, T., Jun, H., Mesicek, R. H., & Bayerlein, L. (2019). An exploration of student learning for sustainability through the WikiRate student engagement project. International Journal of Management Education, 17(3), Article 100313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2019.100313

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An exploration of student learning for sustainability through the WikiRate student engagement project

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

UN SDGs

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Research output

Teaching sustainability: complexity and compromises

Learning experientially for corporate contribution to global sustainable development: international applications of the WikiRate project

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