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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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    Exploring and Testing Anti-Racism and Decolonising Pedagogy in Online-Forum Learning

    Project Team: Alessandra MarinoGunjan SondhiKarl A. HackSuki Haider

    Embedding Inclusivity in Economics Curriculum Development

    Project Team: Kevin DeaneSusan NewmanLorena LombardozziFrancis Garikayi

    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: 

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

    Project Team: Elayne ChaplinTrevor FearAnna PlassartSuzanne Forbes

    Does Wi-Fi/Data Connectivity Disadvantage OU Students?

    Project Team: Sonja RewhornVicky Johnson

    Since March 2020 many of us have had to move to working from home using our home internet whether as Wi-Fi or data.  As well as work shifting to online, The Open University also moved all its tuition seminars online.    

    Decolonising Religious Studies and Promoting Student Retention

    Project Team: Suzanne NewcombePaul-François TremlettJohn MaidenHugh Beattie