Practical tools, reflection guides and inspiration for educational development, curriculum design, SoTL and educational leadership.
Whether you are improving a course, exploring Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), leading curriculum change, supporting colleagues, or designing professional learning, you do not always need to start from scratch.
This page brings together practical guides, reflection tools, and selected resources developed to help educators, educational developers, programme leaders, and learning professionals move ideas into practice.
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Start with SoTL
New to Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)? Start with the Quick Guide for a practical introduction and first steps. Thinking about starting your own inquiry? Before You Start with SoTL helps you reflect and avoid common beginner pitfalls. Ready to move forward? Explore the Utrecht University Roadmap for SoTL to structure and guide your next steps.
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Utrecht University Roadmap for SoTL
From classroom practice to scholarly insights
The Utrecht University Roadmap for SoTL helps you move from classroom questions to scholarly insights. Through eight practical steps, it supports reflection, structured inquiry, and evidence-informed improvement of teaching and student learning.
I co-authored this roadmap together with colleagues at Utrecht University and later contributed to the revised version. If you are interested in the thinking behind the framework, you can also explore the accompanying publication.
Educational Change & Leadership
Educational change rarely begins with formal authority. More often, it starts through curiosity, conversations, connecting people, and creating momentum around ideas. Many people contribute to educational change long before they describe themselves as leaders.
How do ideas move forward inside institutions? How do people influence change without formal authority? And how do small initiatives become meaningful and sustainable over time? These resources explore educational change, leadership, and creating lasting impact across educational practice.
Routes to Change – Strategic Leadership in SoTL
Open-access edited book
Edited by Irma Meijerman & Andrea Webb
How does educational change happen? How do ideas move forward inside institutions? And what does leadership look like when people do not hold formal authority? Routes to Change explores how educational change develops and how individuals and communities create sustainable impact over time.
Explore the Introduction and get a first glimpse of the themes explored in the book — educational change, leadership beyond formal roles, and creating sustainable impact across educational practice.
Full open-access book available after 2 June 2026.
5 Signs You Are Already Leading Educational Change
Reflection resource
Many people contribute to educational change long before they describe themselves as leaders. They start conversations, connect colleagues, support new ideas, and help educational initiatives move forward, often informally and gradually.
This short reflection resource invites you to recognise early signs of educational leadership already present in your own practice. Not as a checklist or a job description, but as a way to reflect on how educational change often begins.
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Curriculum & Course design
Curriculum design is never just about content. It shapes how students learn, engage, and make meaning. These resources explore curriculum development, educational inquiry, and designing learning for changing contexts.
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Designing Inquiry-Based Curricula
A reflection on designing and implementing an inquiry-based curriculum: from educational principles and curriculum choices to creating learning environments that support autonomy, inquiry, and authentic learning experiences.
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Resources on curriculum design, assessment, AI and educational change.
Learning, Expertise & Practice
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Resources for science-based organisations exploring how learning, expertise and practice can be connected more effectively.