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Received: 28 July 2023

Accepted: 7 May 2024

First Online: 24 May 2024

Competing interests

: As this paper reports on a practice-based study, we were involved in the course as lecturers and were as such interested in a positive outcome of the different interventions we undertook. Throughout the paper, we have attempted to be transparent about our role and the trade-offs we encountered.

: This article reports on an educational innovation for which no ethical approval was requested. The ethical committee at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University was not yet installed 2018, whereas this project commenced in 2015 and ended in 2022.

: Unless already published elsewhere, none of the reflections in this paper can be traced back to individual learners. All the quotes in the paper are anonymised and based on (group) interviews for which the interviewees gave their consent. While our tinkering with the course was naturally informed by course evaluations and self-assessment essays, these are not reported in this paper.