Abstract

Students participated in online discussions about sustainable development using a lesson from the Center for Global Geography Education. Students showed statistically significant changes in attitudes about solutions for global problems. Results suggest Chilean students’ attitudes towards grades in geography classes and attitudes towards awareness of world events became more negative; however, attitudes towards email communication increased as did US students’ attitudes towards communicating with people in other countries. Students in USA showed more positive attitudes towards understanding global issues like sustainable development, while they stated a decrease in attitudes towards learning how peers in other countries think about world problems.