Learning of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at a Public University in Central Mexico

Abstract

The emergency of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease forced educational systems to move from face-to-face to virtual classrooms. In this scenario, disseminating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) on virtual platforms intensified immersive learning. The objective of this work was to establish the neural network of a sample of students exposed to the immersive dissemination of the SDGs during the pandemic. An exploratory, cross-sectional, and correlational study was conducted with a sample of 100 professional practitioners and social servants attached to a public university in central Mexico. The results show the prevalence of four nodes related to SDGs 9, 13, 14, and 15. The present work found an innovation in the order of SDGs most widespread and assimilated by the sample and about the state of the art and the limits of the sample size it is recommended to extend the study to the type of immersion: gamified, augmented, or virtualized reality to establish significant differences by type of SDG. In this sense, the gamification of quality of life was anticipated by innovative industrialization and climate action, although the other SDGs should be modeled as predictors of quality of life without gamification and rather in a risk scenario such as the effects of climate change.