openSTEM

Fieldcast team wins prestigious award

The Fieldcast team have created an authentic, inclusive and engaging method for teaching fieldwork for the environmental sciences.

The Fieldcast team, in which KMi’s Trevor Collins and Ben Hawkridge participate, won the Advance HE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) for their innovative use of Open University’s OpenSTEM Labs to enhance fieldwork learning for distance-learning students. Their efforts have significantly improved student engagement and influenced fieldwork education in the UK. The team’s collaborative…