In the 2018-2019 academic year an open pedagogy assessment was introduced in the Developmental and Educational Psychology module in the online, DCU Connected BA in Humanities (Psychology Major) programme.

Following the open pedagogy principle of empowering students to create and share useful information, we sought to enhance the assessment design for an undergraduate developmental and educational psychology module such that its third and final assignment asks students to first write a literature review on mental health and wellbeing in adolescents in the context of the steps post-primary schools take to protect them from risk and increase wellbeing. Secondly, students are asked to create a communication, in the form of a digital information pamphlet or an infographic, that can be shared with the public, advising schools and educators on how to improve adolescent mental health and wellbeing. At the point of submission students will have the option to grant permission for the team to publicly share these digital pamphlets and infographics. A number of posts will follow this one sharing the digitial pamphlets and infographics produced by students.