Work place: School of Engineering, Information Communication University, Lusaka, Zambia
E-mail: georgeruthp@gmail.com
Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4107-1407
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Biography
Ruth George Phiri received the Bachelor of Computer science from the University of Zambia, Lusaka, an Diploma in Secondary school teaching from Krumah College Teachers College, Kabwe, Zambia. She recently completed her master of ICT studies from the Information and Communications of University (ICU) Lusaka, Zambia. Her research interests include climate change education tailored for early learners, adolescents and adults. She is currently a part-time Lecturer at Lusaka business and technical college and a teacher at Chilenje south secondary school, Lusaka Zambia.
By Ruth George Phiri Lameck Nsama Ngula Walubita Swati Samantaray Sudhansu Shekhar Patra Manoj Ranjan Mishra Mahendra Kumar Gourisaria
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2025.05.03, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2025
Climate literacy is crucial to increasing public understanding and engagement with the global climate catastrophe. However, current climate education approaches often fail to effectively raise concern and action, particularly across diverse age groups. This study makes a modest attempt to detail the design and development of a novel multilevel interactive digital climate education platform for early learners, adolescents, and adults using adaptive learning pathways, personalized content delivery, multimedia interactivity, and gamification features to promote learner engagement as well as learning outcomes across different age levels. A mixed-methods research design was used involving pre and post-survey quantitative measures as well as qualitative user experience testing. Post-survey results indicated significant improvement in climate literacy knowledge, attitudes towards the environment, and self-efficacy beliefs regarding individual efforts to mitigate future climate impacts (response efficacy), regardless of learner age group. The comparative analysis thus revealed certain content preferences by age as well as interaction patterns among functionalities and learning gains between groups based on user perspectives that point towards differentiated preference areas linked with diverse ages. The resulting platform exemplifies interactive digital technologies’ potential for achieving sustainable behavior change through optimised synergies with large-scale educational interventions for inducing positive spillover effects in terms of broader widespread climate change engagement impact over generational transition pragma.
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