What do students need to start working on a societal challenge together with external stakeholders? Use our e-modules on impact-driven education and truly prepare your students for the future.

Are you, as a lecturer, designing a course in collaboration with societal partners, but your students have little or no experience with this kind of format? Would you like to introduce your students to impact-driven education and help them understand what to expect from such courses? Then these e-modules are exactly what you need. They contain essential information students need to successfully develop solutions to societal challenges and to collaborate effectively with external stakeholders.

The e-modules are interactive PDFs that students can go through at their own pace and on their own time. The format is engaging and easy to follow. Each module stands alone, so you can use them as a complete package or separately. Every e-module includes an assignment that students can work on—such as during a tutorial session. The goal of these assignments is to apply the knowledge gained in practice.

There are eight modules (PDFs below):

1. Impact-driven Education: A Partnership Between University and Society
2. Involving Multiple Stakeholders to Address Societal Challenges
3. Reciprocal Collaboration and Professional Communication with Stakeholders
4. Ethical Values and Considerations When Collaborating with Stakeholders
5. Using Design Thinking as a Tool for Creating Solutions with Stakeholders
6. The importance of informed consent in collaborating with stakeholders
7. Conducting focus groups with stakeholders
8. Stakeholder mapping process: An approach for meaningful stakeholder engagement

These e-modules were developed as part of the Healthy Start Sprint project ‘Start with Impact’ and Impact at the Core, by Dr. Crystal Smit (assistant professor at ESSB and project leader) and Denise Levy (education innovator at Impact at the Core). Additional contributions came from Prof. Dr. Esther Rozendaal, Dr. Samantha Copeland, Andre Hendrikse, Moon Fung Fong, Dr. Marieke Hartman, and Dr. Niko Vegt.