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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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    Supporting Younger Students with Weekly Communications

    Project Team: Sue Nieland

    University Connectedness, Relational Depth, Wellbeing, Anxiety, and Academic Achievement in FASS Students

    Project Team: Gina Di MaltaNaomi MollerKaty Smith

    Improving the Collaborative TMA on DE200 and Assessing the Impact of these Improvements on AL Satisfaction

    Project Team: Tracey Elder

    Exploring Dissertation Students’ Experiences of Working with Ethical Issues when Undertaking their Dissertation Research

    Project Team: Jenny Lynden

    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.

    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? 

    (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

    Evaluating the Inclusion of Academic Coaching within an Online-Only Postgraduate Module (DD801)

    Project Team: Lucy WildeKesi MahendranKate Garland

    The central aim of the project is to evaluate the academic coaching provided in DD801.

    Monitoring the monitoring: Exploring the impact of structured monitoring meetings on DE100 monitor satisfaction, dialogue and feedback

    Project Team: Charlotte Lattin-Rawstrone

    The Open University is unique in its provision of distance learning provision to a vast number of learners. Distance tuition relies on a high standard of correspondence tuition as it is the feedback that students receive that is the basis of their personalised learning journey.

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