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The STEM Good Tutor Guide

  • Chris Douce
  • It has been 20 years since the university published Supporting Open Learners: Reader, and the accompanying publication, Supporting Open Learners: Theoretical Reader for its tutors. These booklets offer practical guidance about many aspects of the role as a tutor.

    November 2023 to July 2024

    Making space for female engineering students: an evaluation of the effectiveness of a face-to-face Student Conference

  • Fiona Gleed
  • The Engineering profession offers intellectually and financially rewarding careers, with skills in high demand globally. However, women are significantly under-represented, with female students making up 18% of first year Engineering undergraduates in UK HE1.

    November 2023 to March 2024

    An investigation into the progression of OU STEM students from taught courses to postgraduate research

  • Alice Fraser-McDonald
  • In the conventional HE sector, there is often an established pathway for the progression of undergraduate and taught postgraduate students to postgraduate research within the same institution.

    February 2024 to July 2025

    Investigate how integrating vendor certifications within Computing modules affect student motivation, engagement and employability prospects

  • Amaninder Singh
  • Within many OU Computing modules and microcredentials, vendor certification content is partially integrated, or the modules are created solely based on the vendor qualifications (e.g., Cisco, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Education & Development Group (OpenEDG), EC-Council, Microsoft etc).

    October 2023 to September 2025

    Evaluating students’ experience of tuition in S217

  • Adam FreemanAnne-Katrin Klehe
  • Great effort and time is spent by Associate Lecturers (ALs) on delivering tutorials. Uptake of tutorials in all modules is low. This investigation will concentrate on the experience of students on S217, a second level physics module.

    May 2023 to September 2025

    Exploring timeliness, positivity and collection rates of TMA feedback

  • Colette Christiansen
  • This project is designed to extend the recently concluded project “Improving student use of feedback on marked TMAs” to analyse in more detail three areas.  The aim and the sub questions we will seek the answers to are set out below.

    July 2023 to May 2024

    A personal tutor scheme to enhance student retention and improve success

  • Victoria BrownCath Brown
  • Student retention and continuation are key drivers for this project.

    May 2023 to May 2025

    Innovation in online student support

  • Cath BrownSue Pawley
  • Due to the increasing popularity of the Data Science degree, MST224 student numbers have increased significantly.  This has resulted in the employment of significant numbers of ALs, and we would like to use the resultant increase in tutorial time to offer innovative tutorials and enhanced student

    May 2023 to November 2024

    Assessment and Feedback on Introduction of Group Work on M140

  • Ruth Neal Kellee Patterson
  • The aim of this project is to assess the impact on M140 of introducing group work, gain feedback from students and tutors and learn from this experience before rolling this out to all students.

    May 2023 to September 2024

    Team Based Learning tutorials in S248

  • Kate NixonNick Chatterton
  • This project seeks to improve student engagement in tutorials in S248 Chemistry in life: food, water and medicines.

    November 2022 to November 2023

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