SDG 4
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Key Stats
Progress on SDG4: proportion of students starting a degree that are first-generation students from 2020 - 2024.
A first-generation student is the first person in their immediate family to attend university.
Source: IDA
2024 Research Impact
№ relevant publications: 207
№ citations: 442
Courses
- EDU 422 - Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and Reading
- EDU 481 - Teaching Students with Complex Communication Needs: Instructional Design and Methods
- EDU 482 - Teaching Students with Complex Communication Needs: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- EDPS 525 - Globalization, Global Education and Change
Videos
Institutional Stewardship Initiatives
Coursera MOOCs
The University of Alberta offers 18 university-level courses as Massively Open Online Courses, meaning they are both open to the general public and can be taken by University of Alberta students for credits. Courses build on the university’s reputation for astrophysics, paleontology and Northern studies. The course Indigenous Canada is internationally recognized, going viral after Emmy Award-winner Dan Levy encouraged tens of thousands to sign up for the course.
🔗 U of A’s Indigenous Canada online course sees enrolment spike after ‘Schitt’s Creek’ star signs up
Humanities 101
Humanities 101 is a Community Service-Learning outreach program designed to ensure that people with a love of learning have access to educational experiences. The program offers free, non-credit, university-level courses for people living in Edmonton’s downtown and surrounding areas who are passionate about learning and knowledge, especially those whose economic situation, academic experience and financial and social well-being are compromised.
Research institutes, centres & projects
Social connections critical to success for students with learning disabilities
U of A education researcher offers advice on how post-secondary schools and students can foster a sense of belonging and improve learning for those with learning disabilities.
Education researcher reveals history of assimilative tactics on Blood Reserve
Tiffany Prete hopes her work will help intergenerational survivors.