Methodological Improvement for Higher Environmental Education: A Flexible Approach

Successful implementation of sustainable development concepts at the higher education level requires that undergraduates from higher learning institutions receive adequate environmental education and training in this field. This is because, environmental education fosters skills and habits that students can use throughout their lives to understand and act on sustainability topics. In the recent past, most of those institutions around the world have incorporated environmental issues in their curricula. In order to satisfy the specific needs of sustainable development implementations, higher learning institutions need to use new technologies to facilitate environmental education. The flexible learning approach used at Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade is one of these valuable tools. This paper introduces some of the key concepts of flexible learning and investigates how they can be effectively used in higher environmental education for sustainable development.