Project Team: Caroline KellyKaty SmithMarianna LatifRachel PennyPaige CuffeMadeline Knightley
This project aimed to understand attendance for optional face-to-face tuition events on psychology modules. A mixed method approach was used to capture the student voice, and the five methods are presented here.
Project Team: Wendy HumphreysVicky Johnson
This project builds on a previously completed project which found considerable variation in how tutors communicate with their students at the beginning of a module.
Project Team: Lindsay CrispMelissa BaileyHannah LaveryDonna SmithKaty SmithJoanna Robson
This project draws together a team of colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences to explore participation in ‘live’ online learning events and summary recordings with no students present known as ‘Learning Event Summaries’ (LES).
Project Team: Richard Marsden
Independent learning is usually envisaged as something that students do alone. But on ‘A329, The Making of Welsh History’, an online distance-learning dissertation module at the Open University, the situation is quite the reverse.
Project Team: Clare TaylorHeather Richardson
This pilot project brings together two disciplines from the School of Arts & Humanities, Creative Writing and Art History.
Project Team: Robin MackieAstrid VoigtJen ShepherdSteve PadleyMaddy SharmanMichelle Hynd
The project looked at quantitative data for the three academic years starting in October 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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.
Project Team: Robin MackieSteve PadleyMaddy SharmanJen ShepherdAstrid Voigt
In our previous project we were able to use data from the LEM system to explore student attendance in tuition from across the Arts & Humanities programme.
Project Team: Trevor FearNaoko YamagataCora Beth FraserArdle Mac Mahon
‘Relaxed’ events are held across the Arts sector, primarily as a means of accommodating neurodiversity, but also as a way of suiting other specific needs.
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