Category: Reflection

  • A virtual biscuit tin: creating a community of practice for learning designers in lockdown

    A virtual biscuit tin: creating a community of practice for learning designers in lockdown

    It wasn’t just students who faced a sudden change in how they were learning in March when the UK locked down. Learners in the workplace were affected too – including our learning design team here at the Open University. We were dispersed to our homes by lockdown and overnight, lost our ability to learn from one another.

  • 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…