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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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    Flexible Study Intensity in Arts and Humanities: Classical Studies and History

    Project Team: Elayne ChaplinTrevor FearAnna PlassartSuzanne Forbes

    Assessing the Impact of Changes to the Tuition Model for English Literature Modules in Terms of Attendance, Attainment, and Retention

    Project Team: Encarnacion Trinidad-BarrantesJessica DaviesHannah LaveryTim HammondElizabeth FordSteve Padley

    Supporting Younger Students with Weekly Communications

    Project Team: Sue Nieland

    Exploring the Use of WhatsApp in a Distance Learning Context

    Project Team: Zoe Doye

    The focus of the proposed scholarship project is to explore the perceived advantages and disadvantages to using WhatsApp within distance education. 

    (Not) On My Own: Using Online Communities of Practice (CoP) to Encourage Development of Academic Identity of Distance Tutor

    Project Team: Marianna LatifMalik Refaat

    Further Investigation into the Use of Peer Observation for Professional Development: Piloting the AL Toolkit

    Project Team: Tatiana BlackmoreJudith Wilson-HughesLiz Wright

    This is a project building on the findings of "An Investigation into the use of Peer Observation as a Tool for Professiona

    Level 1 Progression and Qualification Pathways: A Case Study in History

    Project Team: Linda BriggsElayne ChaplinSuzanne Forbes

    Open University students usually register for a specific degree when they begin their studies, but are able to change to a different degree pathway at various points while they are studying.

    Next Generation Paper for Geography Education

    Project Team: George RevillBenjamin NewmanSonja Rewhorn

    Next Generation Paper (NGP) is a technology that blends paper-based and web-based materials using a freely downloadable phone app with page recognition that was developed as part of a 36-month ESRPC-funded project between the University of Surrey and OU.

    Exploring the Role of Video Pod Usage in Online Sessions

    Project Team: Sinead EcclesKaren Twiselton

    This two-stage project is aimed at mapping a period of change within the Open University (OU) where Associate Lecturers (ALs) are encouraged to activate their camera (or video-pod) whilst delivering online tutorials.

    Evaluating the Impact of ‘Write Now’ Sessions: Adapting Approaches from Academic Writing Retreats to Create a Learning Community of Student Writers on A233

    Project Team: Debbie Parker KinchAnactoria ClarkeJasmine Hunter Evans

    The scholarship project will pilot and evaluate ‘write now’ sessions on the Open University English Literature module A233 ‘Telling Stories: the novel and beyond’.  These will be live online sessions aimed at helping students get writing, alongside other students who form a writing community, in

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