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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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    Understanding Student Learning of Emotive and Sensitive Content

    Project Team: Julia DownesRuth WallAnne Alvaer

    Running an Effective Online Gallery Visit

    Project Team: Lindsay CrispVeronica Davies

    We know that there are a number of both tangible and intangible ‘tried and tested’ benefits of face-to-face gallery visits.

    Making the Most of Monitoring

    Project Team: Sue Nieland

    As one of the largest universities in Europe, and the largest in the UK, the quantity of assessment that has to be carried out by tutors at the Open University is far greater than in most institutions.

    An Investigation into the Use of Peer Observation as a Tool for Professional Development and an Aid to Developing a Professional Evaluative Culture Among Associate Lecturers

    Project Team: Judith Wilson-HughesTatiana BlackmoreLiz Wright

    How can Tutors Deliver Effective Teaching and Support to Creative Writing Students with Mental Health Difficulties

    Project Team: Joanne ReardonMelissa BaileyNatalie Lewis

    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

    Teaching Sensitive Topics

    Project Team: Stephen RobinsonDavid Morrison

    Reducing Student Anxiety Whilst Waiting for their Marked Assignments

    Project Team: Alison Penn

    Submitting an assignment is usually accompanied by a sense of relief but then there is the wait for the mark and the feedback which can cause anxiety amongst students.  This is particularly the case for the first assignment on a new module and happened with DD212 Understandi

    Pedagogies at the Intersection of Arts and Academia

    Project Team: Agnes Czajka

    Having co-led the Open University’s Tate Exchange initiative over the past three years, I have come to realise that a number of colleagues in FASS and other faculties have worked – or have expressed interest in working – at the intersection of arts and academia.

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