Creating Open Education Resources to increase Climate Change Literacy in Nigeria

Abstract

As librarians interested in open knowledge, the researchers observed that the climate crises have not received the necessary attention through access to contextual open educational resources (OER) to counter climate-misinformation which was evident during the devastating floods in 2022. Most of the available Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on climate change are either too ‘academic’ or not relatable to the Nigerian audience. Thus, to tackle climate misinformation, the researchers interviewed five climate advocates at the fore-front of climate education in Nigeria, about the friction points and opportunities of climate education to create an easy-to-understand open self-study tutorial. The feedback was shared with three subject-experts and a course outline was developed. The online tutorial was designed using the open-authoring tool of the OER Commons. It is expected that the online tutorial shall increase the robustness of the open knowledge commons with information on contextual climate change and increase climate change literacy.