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FASSTEST brings together colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, providing a mechanism for professional development through practice-based scholarship within a mentored community. 

Much of our work is organised on a project basis with project management aimed at the delivery of new educational outcomes and scholarship outcomes. FASSTEST supports a rolling portfolio of approximately 40 active scholarship projects under a number of themes which include:

  • Online and blended tuition 
  • Assessment
  • Employability/careers 
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Multisensory/multimodal learning

If you are interested in learning more about a particular project or connecting with a project team, please contact us at FASS-Scholarship@open.ac.uk

Projects

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    The OU and Scotland’s Colleges’ Collaborative Teaching Partnership: An Evaluation

    Project Team: Gerry MooneyJanet ColeIain Macpherson Steven McGeeverKhadija Patel

    The primary purpose of the proposed project was to:

    Capture the experiences of students, tutors and partnership managers (both OU and College) and to evaluate the impacts of these Collaborative Teaching Partnership in three of Scotland’s Colleges: Ayrshire, City of Glasgow and Fife.

    Teaching Critical Thinking Skills

    Project Team: Sue NielandIan McGarryAmita Sen-Gupta

    In the age of digital information and high levels of technology in academic life, critical thinking skills are not just considered as an element of academic literacy; they have been interpreted in terms of the ability to use Microsoft Office and reference managing software effectively when underg

    Developing an Approach to Networked Audio for Distance Learning in Music Practice

    Project Team: Sean WilliamsNaomi Barker

    This project examines the use of networked technologies for group music practice, within the context of a small group of 3-7 players.

    Communication Strategies and the Tutor-Student Relationship

    Project Team: Wendy HumphreysVicky Johnson

    One of the findings of our completed project, The Quality of Tutor-Student Early contact in Post Level 1 Modules, was the extreme variation in both the interpretation and practice of tutors, in terms of early communication within a module.

    SMART Feedback: Exploring the impact of action-focused student feedback on the student experience of learning

    Project Team: Charlotte Lattin-Rawstrone

    The proposed study intends to investigate the application of aspects of the research and framework through an intervention that builds on this framework with a specific focus on the reciprocal process and enactment of outcomes of feedback components by using SMART goals in the feedback process.

    Tracking retention and building community in distance music study

    Project Team: Alexander KolassaLilian Simones

    There are three objectives of this project (presented in order of priority):

    Developing Academic Integrity in Postgraduate Students

    Project Team: Sue NielandPaige Cuffe

    This project will explore the development of postgraduate students’ understanding and practice of academic integrity, that is of good academic conduct, focusing particularly on the module Principles of Social and Psychological Inquiry.

    Arts-based Collaborative Digital Eco-Pedagogies for Teaching about the Climate Crisis and Intersecting Global Challenges in Higher and Distance Education

    Project Team: Maria NitaYoseph Araya

    The project aims to start a cross-faculty conversation about the current use of novel reflective, digital, public engagement and teaching methodologies in Higher and distance education (Cooke, Araya, Bacon, et al. 2021; Walsh and Powell, 2019).

    Academic Conduct Matters: Assessing the Impact of Academic and Disciplinary Interventions on Student’s Retention, Progression, and Completion

    Project Team: Encarnacion Trinidad-Barrantes

    This project is primarily concerned with investigating historic data (2011-2020) on referrals for poor academic practice in order to determine: 

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