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Curriculum Development in Computing and Communications: Enabling the Student Voice, Facilitating Employability and Exploring Students’ Personal and Professional Aspirations

  • Alexis LansburyArabella Nock

    • This project will investigate whether our current C&C curriculum meets the personal and professional aspirations and employability needs of our students and identify curriculum-gaps from our students’ perspectives.

    April 2022 to October 2024

    Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Badged Open Course

  • Shailey MinochaDiane Butler

    • This free Badged Open Course (BOC) titled Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM provides a toolkit for conducting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL

    January 2021 to September 2021

    Evaluating the Impact of Implementing Learning Design Approaches in STEM over 4 Years

  • Tom Olney

    • In 2016, the OU was restructured into four super-faculties (STEM, WELS, FASS & FBL). Amongst many other things, each faculty was tasked with developing structures, governance and procedures that would support module teams in designing teaching and learning appropriate to their context.

    April 2021 to March 2022

    Using Learning Logs in SXPS288 – Effectiveness in helping students to reach Learning Outcomes, to enhance and document their employability skills, and raise awareness of opportunities in the space sector

  • Alan Cayless

    • Within the physical sciences curriculum, employability and skills development elements are being incorporated into modules in order to address the Open University Employability Policy and also to address the employability and careers development requirements of Institute of Physics (IoP) accredit

    November 2020 to December 2023

    Degree-Apprenticeships: Embedding learning in the practice-tutor, apprentice, employer tripartite

  • Alexis LansburyAutumn ThomsonAndy Hollyhead

    • This project will focus on the undergraduate degree-apprenticeships offered by the School of Computing and Communications in England and Wales.

    May 2020 to December 2021

    Measuring the Impact of Learning Design and Course Creation (LDCC) Workshops

  • Tom Olney

    • Highly Commended at the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2024.

    October 2019 to January 2024

    Evaluating a new STEM AL induction programme

  • Hannah GauciJanette Wallace

    • Highly Commended at the 5th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2022.

    October 2019 to July 2021

    Developing students and tutors perceptions of good mathematical communication on level one service mathematics module MU123: an investigation

  • Sally Crighton

    • The project addresses the issue of good mathematical communication for level one mathematics students.

    April 2019 to October 2025

    Student perceptions and development of employability skills on a level 4 multidisciplinary science module

  • Fiona AikenChris Hutton

    • S112, Science: concepts and practice, was a new science module at the Open University in 2017.

    November 2018 to November 2020

    Changing the way the game is played: transforming postgraduate curriculum praxis and workplace capabilities

  • Martin ReynoldsRay Ison

    • Research question: what are the opportunities and challenges for re-visioning the role of postgraduate distance learning provision and curriculum design in shifting from a conventional emphasis on developing ‘competencies’ based on learning outcomes (playing ‘the game’ better) to

    May 2018 to December 2021

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