Members attending the Curriculum & Employability Forum in January have drawn upon the breadth of their practice and experience to create an Authentic Learning in Practice resource for this site (available under the Employability in Practice menu).

An hour was set aside for the activity in which 25 academics used Herrington’s 9 Principles of Authentic Learning to reflect on their own practice and that of their colleagues. The resource can be used as the basis for course team discussions or members of the community will offer a similar workshop to inspire similar thinking.

This activity is a further example of how the forum is responding to the idea of the ‘applied university’ emerging in the University’s new strategy. Similar activities have already contributed to the development of tools on this site.