June 17, 2022

Low-traffic neighbourhoods - Teacher version

This case study asks students to examine the arguments made for and against the introduction of low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs). Students are asked to read a journalistic article about the controversies surrounding LTNs in neighborhoods in England during the COVID-19 lockdown. From this, students work together in small groups to identify arguments for and against LTNs, considering the strengths of the arguments presented. After a discussion of these arguments, students should consider how they would decide on this issue, if faced with it as an engineer and/or as a member of the community.

July 19, 2021

Organizing for Sustainability - A Guide to Developing New Business Models

This upper-level Open Access textbook aims to educate students and professionals on how to develop business models that have a positive impact on people, society, and the social and ecological environment. It explores a different view of how to organize value creation, from a focus on an almost exclusively monetary value creation to one that creates positive impact through multiple values. The book offers students and entrepreneurs a structured approach based through the Business Model Template (BMT). It consists of three stages and ten building blocks to facilitate the development of a business model. Users, be they students or practitioners, need to choose from one of the three offered business model archetypes, namely the platform, community, or circular business models. Each archetype offers a dedicated logic for vale creation. The book can be used to develop a business model from scratch (turning an idea into a working prototype) or to transform an existing business model into one of the three archetypes. Throughout the book extra sources, links to relevant online video clips, assignments and literature are offered to facilitate the development process. This book will be of interest to students studying the development of business models, sustainable management, innovation, and value creation. It will also be of interest executives, and professionals such as consultants or social entrepreneurs seeking further education. Is supported by a self-paced MOOC, also Open Access, holding seven chapters and over 50 teaching units ready to use: https://bit.ly/3oFZ3jj

June 30, 2022

Critical and scientific thinking

Critical thinking is one of the biggest hiatuses in our education system. Learning to distinguish sense from nonsense is of great importance in the information age that we live in. In a systematic way, this book helps you to gain insight into, and subsequently eliminate, the most important reasoning errors that we all tend to make. It also helps you to debunk weak and fallacious arguments and unreliable information. In addition to understanding what critical and scientific thinking entails, you will learn more about what makes science reliable. In times of skepticism regarding science, where (sometimes dangerous) pseudoscientific and conspiracy theories run rampant, this is particularly important. Critical thinking is not a matter of intellectual preference or even self-interest (although one certainly benefits from thinking critically). It is first and foremost a matter of moral and social responsibility. Better thinking leads to a better world. With this book I hope to contribute to that important goal and you, dear student or reader, can do the same!

September 1, 2025

Self-assessment B1 of CEFR

This is a checklist for self-assessment for B1 of the CEFR, based on the Companion Volume of the CEFR (2020)

March 16, 2020

Michigan - BlueLink

Michigan - BlueLink. A high quality comprehensive educational anatomy website covering the complete undergraduate anatomy, created by Dr. B. Kathleen Alsup and Dr. Glenn M. Fox of the Division of Anatomical Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. It contains: hundreds high quality dissection photo's, labeled and unlabeled, all downloadable, hundreds high quality labeled anatomical drawings, all downloadable, over 300 video lectures (10 sec - 14 min.), over 100 3D models of bones, the brain and some organs, downloadable, under CC BY NC ND license, 30 dissection lab manuals with dissection photo's (LabLinks), 7 sets with each 15-25 labeled radiology images, 30 self-test pdf files with in each 10 to 30 click-to-reveal labeled dissection photo's (QuizLink), all downloadable, 30 self-test sets with each 15-80 textual questions with answers with extensive feedback (Practice Questions), 10 self-test sets with each 15-25 dissection photo's with click-to-reveal structure name questions (Practice Practicals) All images, videos, 3D models, questions or files can be individually linked directly. THIS SITE IS NOT UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE, but it states you are allowed to use materials from it for educational purposes with credit and notification to authors. Also, as with all online resources, you are free to link to the items on the site.

September 1, 2025

Self-assessment B2 of CEFR

This is a self-assessment checklist for B2 of the CEFR, based on the Companion Volume of the Common European Framework of Reference

August 1, 2016

The Biobased Economy (introductory modules of societal aspects)

December 28, 2019

Utah - Website NeuroLogic Exam

The NeuroLogic Exam: An Anatomical Approach is an online platform with over 250 video demonstrations with narrative descriptions in online tutorials. The website combines the use of anatomical diagrams, live patient exams, video patient cases and self-evaluation tools to accomplish its educational goals. The platform presents the anatomical foundations of the neurologic exam and provides examples of both normal and abnormal conditions as exhibited by patients. By Paul D. Larsen, M.D., Professor, Department of Pediatric Neurology, University of Nebraska, College of Medicine, and Suzanne S. Stensaas, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah School of Medicine. Additional materials were drawn from resources provided by Alejandro Stern, Stern Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Kathleen Digre, M.D., University of Utah; and Daniel Jacobson, M.D., Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin. Retrieved from https://neurologicexam.med.utah.edu/adult/html/home_exam.html

May 21, 2025

Open Pedagogy: a driving force for meaningful learning

Report on how Open Pedagogy can support meaningful learning.

April 23, 2024

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