Measuring Sustainable Development - Course

Opencourse of edX launched in 2015 about the measuring of progress of sustainable development and the SDGs. Tools like SDG Index, Dashboards and databases are presented and explained in order to understand how the use of them can help to make important decisions about development policies. 

Different resources, such as videos, readings, activities and quizzes, are used in the course to facilitate learning of the objetives, which are:
  • Know the value of measuring progress on the SDGs.
  • Learning to apply the SDG Index and Dashboards for understanding SDG progress in the environment of the student. 
  • Manage data sources and differentiate between different types of data.
  • Understand the steps to construct an SDG Index.