Design and Development of a Sustainability-focused Hybrid Course for Undergraduates Based on Open Educational Resources

In this paper, a complete design of a sustainability-focused hybrid course has been presented for undergraduate curricula. The three remarkable features of this course are the following. Firstly, this is a sustainability-focused course suitable for undergraduate students of any discipline. The course particularly focuses on smart and connected cities and how they can help the vision of smart cities. Secondly, this course is based on hybrid modality, meaning that the course has both face-to-face and virtual lectures and other contents that can be balanced with careful attention to program needs. Thirdly, this course is entirely based upon open educational resources (OER) meaning that students do not have to purchase textbooks but rather rely on open-access (OA) scholarly articles for this course. The course is designed and developed by the first author in his sabbatical leave at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and has been offered for the first time to the undergraduate students of the School of Integrated Innovation (ScII) at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.