Sustainable Real Estate Course on Canvas

The course was adapted from an open MIT course (Sustainable Real Estate), Lecture 2: The Economics of Green Buildings, part 1. 

The lecture consists of six topics:

1. Triple bottom lines: Developers, owners, tenants  

2. Building asset cash-flows and risk: hypothetical and Rockville pro forma  

3. Life cycle cost-benefit analysis: impacts of greenness on pro forma by stakeholders  

4. Information asymmetry and adverse selection  

5. Green building certificates  

6. Benchmarking and transparency policies 

I incoroporated a few interactive tools in this Canvas course:

1. Padlet

I used Padlet to create a Kick-off Activity, asking students to share any real-life examples of green building initiatives.

2. Genially

I used Genially to create an interactive infographic about the Triple bottom lines and an interactive quiz on Life Cycle Cost-Benefit Analysis (LCCA).

https://view.genially.com/67253cfccaed83cf97200861/horizontal-infographic-diagrams-triple-bottom-lines

https://view.genially.com/6725489e126f392db9dcd615/interactive-content-life-cycle-cost-benefit-analysis-lcca-quiz

3. Miro

A Miro board is created for a Role-Play Exercise, where students take on the role of a developer, buyer, or regulator and discuss how information asymmetry affects green building investments.

4. Figjam

A Figjam debate board is created for students to debate the impact of transparency policies on real estate. They can like or comment on each other's arguments.