Meeting Stakeholder Needs Through Authentic Assessment of Carbon Literacy and Digital Skills

Abstract

This chapter explores the embedding of Carbon Literacy and digital skills into a UK undergraduate tourism module which is designed to meet tourism employer needs and expectations of graduate employability skills. Carbon Literacy is an awareness of the carbon dioxide costs from everyday activities and it scaffolds learning on the complex relationship between climate change and tourism. An authentic assessment of the key learning outcomes is based on the identified needs of a tourism destination and illustrated via easy-to-use and freely available digital software such as an App, narrated video or website builder.