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Small Changes, Clear Signals: Making Hidden Sustainability Links Visible in Physics
Dr. Martin Braun ~ STEM staff tutor Sustainability is a defining societal challenge and higher education has a role to play in equipping learners to engage competently with its complexity. For some disciplines, this comes naturally. For others, physics among them is less so. An eSTEeM funded project brought together colleagues from across The Open…
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Inside the ICEBERG: How we updated the ICEBERG principles
Catriona Matthews, Jake Hilliard, and James Openshaw ~ Learning Designers Earlier this year, we proudly shared a blog post introducing the updated ICEBERG principles – a set of seven evidence-based learning design principles that positively impact student retention. Originally created in 2016, the principles were updated across 2023-2024 to reflect new research, student insights,…
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Evolving design: shaping our work around a service-led model
Gerald Evans ~ Head of Learning Design Since 2020 our experiences as a Learning Design (LD) team have been heavily influenced by much of our work moving online. The pandemic led to us resetting how we operated and in particular required us to find effective online mechanisms for running collaborative sessions while continuing to have…