Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Shailey Minocha. It was first published in August 2021.

Shailey is very grateful to her colleague, Diane Butler, Associate Dean (Academic Excellence), Faculty of STEM, The Open University, UK, who has been her mentor during the design and development of this course. Diane reviewed all the materials at least twice and provided invaluable feedback. Without her involvement and commitment, this course would not have been possible.

Thanks very much to Diane Ford, project manager of eSTEeM [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] , for her unstinted support to this course in innumerable ways. 

Enormous gratitude is due to Dale Harry of OpenLearn for his guidance, kind care and patience in the editing and production of this course. 

Thanks very much to our OpenLearn colleagues, Sas Amoah, Ana Collins, Catherine Halliwell, James Richards, Luke Yorke and Marcus Young who helped in the production process. 

Thanks also to colleagues in the Faculty of STEM at The Open University for their generosity in allowing us to use their projects (as case studies), photographs, and videos in this course, and for reviewing the corresponding course materials. 

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

Impact evaluation framework in Section 2.3, © Shailey Minocha. The impact evaluation framework (IEF) for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Figure 2: courtesy of Anne-Marie Gallen

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Videos 3, 5 and 7: courtesy of Dr. Nicola Simmons

Video 6: Making a Case for SoTL video by Center for Engaged Learning, Elon University, https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 4.0/

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