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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.

    Supporting DD102 Students to Develop the ‘Reflection on and Articulation of Employability Skills’

    Project Team: Ieman Hassan

    The project aims are to draw on employability guidance to enable ALs through a practitioner enquiry to ‘make the components of employability explicit to students’ in order to further ‘support students in articulating their skills, values and behaviours gained and developed through their study at

    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):

    Employability and Graduate Outcomes in the Arts and Humanities

    Project Team: Richard MarsdenAngeliki LymberopoulouJoanne FallowsEd SwithenbySara WolfsonBeverley MasonClaire Blanchard

    The school of Arts and Humanities faces some significant challenges around employability and graduate outcomes. There is an increasing emphasis on vocational subjects in the public discourse around university education.

    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.

    Identifying Future Directions: Where do Final Year Psychology and Counselling Students Find Information about Postgraduate Study?

    Project Team: Rhiannon EdwardsMary Dobson

    Research question: Where do final year Psychology and Counselling students gain information about postgraduate study? 

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