In 2005, HEFCE funded 74 Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs). In 2010, the funding ceased and most of those CETLs went off the boil. SOLSTICE was originally founded as a CETL at Edge Hill University (based in Ormskirk in Lancashire) but was kept running from central funding. The centre supports learning and … [Read more…]
Always keen to get on with the job at hand, I’ve never really thought about impact as a ‘thing’. Yet if I stop and think about it, everything I do impacts someone or something. As a Learning Designer working on Social Science modules, I attended the Making a Difference: Impact in the Social Sciences conference … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
Our team at The Open University has gone through a rebrand. Where before we had Learning Design (LD) and TEL Design components to our team, we are now all Learning Designers. A small change in terminology, but hopefully a big change in mindset. So why have we done this? First, it better encapsulates what we’re … [Read more…]