Education for Flourishing: Peer Feedback and Distance Learning

What is it about?

Teaching sustainable development at the higher education level requires that existing curricula get supplemented with multidisciplinary (and sometimes multinational) collaboration and integrated thinking. The aim of this paper is to increase our understanding of a particular framework for business model innovation for sustainability-as-flourishing that is used as a boundary object in the context of an interdisciplinary, peer-assessed distance learning. This study is positioned in the broader picture of enlarging curricular content so as to reflect the systemic and interconnected nature of socio-technical and economic developments. The motivation behind this study is the authors’ wish to achieve a deeper understanding of how students' engage with the complex concept of sustainable business modelling, while using the flourishing business canvas.

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Why is it important?

This study is positioned in the broader picture of enlarging curricular content so as to reflect the systemic and interconnected nature of socio-technical and economic developments. Specifically, the Flourishing Business Canvas (FBC) is the framework/tool used in this study. The FBC is a specific framework/tool for business model innovation for sustainability that companies can use when they would create new or innovate their business models. The FBC framework/tool is used as a boundary object in this study to facilitate learning. The motivation behind this study is the authors’ wish to achieve a deeper understanding of how students' engage with the complex concept of business model innovation for sustainability, while using the FBC.