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title: "A Few Thoughts About... New Student Well-being Heuristics at Work"
date: 12/04/2020
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    'twitter:title' : A Few Thoughts About... New Student Well-being Heuristics at Work
    'twitter:description' : "These heuristics are for online course sites, and are in additional to Jakob Nielsen's classic 10 heuristics"
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_Recently I tweeted about my new student well-being heuristics with a simple example of them at work, and I thought I would share them here:_

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Student well-being tip: Are you planning for an open book style final exam? Consider adding a Topics page to your course site to help support students locating useful related course content quickly, easily, and with less stress!<br><br>Here are some <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SFU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SFU</a> CMPT-363 examples👇 <a href="https://t.co/AYFBTf3uEm">pic.twitter.com/AYFBTf3uEm</a></p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1334547601874591746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A simple Topics page is a practical example based on my &quot;student well-being&quot; heuristic design principles (in addition to Jakob Nielsen&#39;s classic 10 heuristic principles):<br><br>✅Reduce student anxiety and stress<br>✅Support student time management<br>✅Provide anonymous feedback channel</p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1334560882836193281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thanks to the ever helpful feedback of <a href="https://twitter.com/davidnwright?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davidnwright</a>, here is my next iteration:<br><br>⓵ Reduce student anxiety and stress<br>⓶ Support student time management<br>⓷ Frictionless direct student–instructor communication<br><br>Quite telling that &#39;student&#39; is within each design principle🙂</p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/1334574342097698816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>