Learning Resources

• What is a learning ecosystem?

  This video explains learning as an interconnected ecosystem, using a garden metaphor to show how knowledge develops through multiple influences. It introduces key elements such as pathways (guidance), gardeners (people and networks), hot houses (safe practice spaces), foundations (resources), and streams (learning through doing).

  This is important because it reframes learning as continuous, self-directed and socially shaped rather than confined to formal instruction. It helps students understand how to actively manage their own learning across environments, relationships and experiences.

• 14 Miller’s Pyramid of assessment

  This video explains Miller’s Pyramid of Assessment as a developmental model for professional identity, progressing from knowledge to embodied practice. It outlines five stages, knows, knows how, shows how, does, and is, demonstrating how learners move from understanding concepts to fully integrating skills, behaviours and professional values.

  This is important because it provides a structured framework for understanding professional growth. It helps students see development as a gradual, ongoing process that moves beyond competence towards identity, reflection and lifelong learning.

• How to Become a More Effective Listener

  This video introduces active listening as a core communication skill that supports trust, collaboration and professional relationships. It provides practical techniques such as maintaining attention, reducing distractions, responding without judgement, and using clarification and paraphrasing to demonstrate understanding. It also explains the difference between active and passive listening and when each may be appropriate.

  This is important because effective listening underpins meaningful interaction in both academic and workplace settings, helping students communicate more thoughtfully and engage more productively with others.

  The recording also reflects strong academic initiative, with Tiffany using Canva video for the first time to present the content clearly and confidently, even while managing a difficult cough and cold, a small but genuine example of professionalism and commitment to the student learning experience.

• Self belief, self confidence, and self esteem

  This video explains three core personal attributes that support the development of a growth mindset: self-belief (self-efficacy), self-confidence and self-esteem. It outlines how belief in one’s capability influences behaviour, motivation and opportunity-seeking, how confidence enables individuals to act on their abilities and manage feedback, and how self-esteem reflects overall self-worth and personal value. Together, these qualities shape how learners approach challenges, goals and professional growth.

  This is important because it connects mindset theory to practical self-development, helping learners understand how internal beliefs influence performance, resilience and career progression. It encourages reflection on how personal perceptions shape behaviour and decision-making.

  From a learning design perspective, the video provides affective scaffolding alongside cognitive skill development. By explicitly naming and explaining internal psychological drivers of learning and performance, it supports self-awareness and reflective practice, both critical for personal and professional development. Positioned within the broader learning journey, it helps learners build the internal conditions needed to engage productively with feedback, challenge and continuous improvement.

• Three main types of cooperative learning groups

  This multimedia explains the three main types of cooperative learning groups, formal, informal, and cooperative base groups, and how each supports learning in different ways and timeframes. It shows how structured group tasks, spontaneous short discussions, and long-term support groups each play a distinct role in developing knowledge, collaboration, and professional growth.

  The resource is important because it helps learners recognise that collaboration is not one single experience but a continuum, from quick exchanges to sustained learning relationships. This supports intentional participation in group learning and highlights how different group structures contribute to skill development over time.

• Which school of ethics do you lean towards?

  Learners are asked to find out which ethical framework or perspective drives their choices. The results help learners unpack beliefs they are strongly aware of (explicit principles) and others may be a surprise to see (implicit principles).

• Tutorial activity 1.3: How to Respond to an Ethical Dilemma

  In this interactive learners are asked how they would respond in three scenarios. There are no right or wrong answers, the aim is to help facilitate discussiong and compare selections in tutorial session with the tutor and other students.

• The Work-life Balance Wheel

  The Work-life Balance Wheel is a simple but powerful tool that helps learners visualise all the important areas of their life at once. The wheel helps learners understand which of areas of life are flourishing and which ones need the most work.