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Open Access Virtual conferences in higher education: Teasing out their transformative potential for sustainable development

This article is Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY licence.

The Coronavirus outbreak has made virtual education a high necessity. Our intention here was to highlight potentials of virtual conferences to enhance transformative learning for sustainable development; new applications will provide powerful insights.

Keywords: CO2 saving; Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD); e-conferencing; sustainability competences; transformative learning

Document Type: Communications

Publication date: 27 March 2020

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