The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis, one which also influences the ways sustainability is being taught at universities. This paper undertakes an analysis of the extent to which COVID-19 as a whole and the lockdown it triggered in particular, which has led to the suspension of presence-based teaching in universities worldwide and influenced teaching on matters related to sustainable development. By means of a worldwide survey involving higher education institutions across all continents, the study has identified a number of patterns, trends and problems. The results from the study show that the epidemic has significantly affected teaching practices. The lockdowns have led to a surge in the use of on-line communication tools as a partial replacement to normal lessons. In addition, many faculty teaching sustainability in higher education have strong competencies in digital literacy. The sampled higher education educations have—as a whole—adequate infrastructure to continue to teach during the lockdowns. Finally, the majority of the sample revealed that they miss the interactions via direct face-to-face student engagement, which is deemed as necessary for the effective teaching of sustainability content. The implications of this paper are two-fold. Firstly, it describes how sustainability teaching on sustainable development has been affected by the lockdown. Secondly, it describes some of the solutions deployed to overcome the problem. Finally, the paper outlines the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic may serve the purpose of showing how university teaching on sustainability may be improved in the future, taking more advantage of modern information technologies.

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COVID-19：全球危机对可持续发展教学的影响

COVID-19 大流行引发了一场全球危机，这场危机也影响了大学教授可持续发展的方式。本文分析了 COVID-19 的整体程度，特别是它引发的封锁，在多大程度上导致了世界各地大学在线教学的暂停，并影响了可持续发展相关问题的教学。通过对各大洲高等教育机构进行的全球调查，该研究发现了一些模式、趋势和问题。研究结果表明，疫情对教学实践产生了显着影响。封锁导致在线通信工具的使用激增，以部分替代正常课程。此外，许多在高等教育中教授可持续发展的教师在数字素养方面都具有很强的能力。总体而言，抽样的高等教育机构拥有足够的基础设施，可以在封锁期间继续教学。最后，大多数样本透露，他们错过了通过直接面对面的学生参与进行的互动，这被认为对于有效地教授可持续发展内容是必要的。本文的意义有两个。首先，它描述了封锁如何影响可持续发展的可持续性教学。其次，它描述了为解决该问题而部署的一些解决方案。最后，本文概述了这样一个事实，即 COVID-19 大流行可能有助于展示未来如何更多地利用现代信息技术来改进大学可持续发展教学。