Category: Employability

  • Building aspirations: embedding employability into learning design

    Building aspirations: embedding employability into learning design

    Many students choose to study with the OU to build new job-related skills or take a step up in their career. But plenty more benefit from the employability focus of our modules even if they’re not studying for career reasons. That’s because we see employability as more than just about building skills – we see […]

  • Student journeys: embedding skills into the curriculum

    Student journeys: embedding skills into the curriculum

    The Open University approach to designing for learning puts a strong focus on knowing who the learners are, catering for their needs and supporting them to succeed. One of the strengths of the OU is that its students are very diverse – the OU’s mission is to be open to people, places, methods and ideas […]

  • OneNote: an eportfolio-type tool to support PDP

    OneNote: an eportfolio-type tool to support PDP

    By Sue Lowe, Senior Learning Designer What is PDP? The OU Student employability policy states that all students are entitled to be supported in Personal Development Planning (PDP) (Open University, 2011). The OU defines PDP as a framework to support students in their analysis of and development of their own skills, and a means of […]