Project Team: Astrid VoigtEmma Bridges
This project investigates the benefits and challenges – for both students and educators – of an innovative assessment format which aims to make assessment more inclusive and authentic for Classical Studies students.
Project Team: Natalie LewisDonall MacCathmhaoillEmma Claire SweeneyLania Knight
This mixed-methods project evaluated the introduction of the recording of online tutorials on OU Level 2 module, Creative Writing. The project investigated specific concerns and considerations around tutorial attendance, student participation, and the pedagogy of Creative Writing workshops.
Project Team: Emilie RutledgeRoberto SimonettiJulia Chukwuma
This project considers student retention rates in relation to forum activity participation. While an array of factors—individual and institutional—impact these rates in Higher Education, creating a strong sense of student community is one organisational level measure that can addressed.
Project Team: Eimear O'ConnorKatie Rix
When studying distance learning, researchers often focus on improving the interaction between attendees (e.g. Bernard et al., 2009). However, this type of research is often based on the assumption that interaction is beneficial for all students.
Project Team: Jaime Waters
This project arises from tutor experiences in teaching SISE (Students in Secure Environments) and derives from reflections on the difficulties that SiSE students face beyond access to printed materials, and how we can provide the best possible materials and support for SISE students.
Project Team: Kerry SomersetEmma Clarence
Much of the quality assurance of teaching and learning at the Open University is undertaken through the monitoring of marked student assignments.
Project Team: Janet HunterKaren Twiselton
The aim of the project is to explore the experience of students who have been registered on the same module for one or more previous presentations, have either withdrawn, deferred, or been deregistered, and have subsequently returned to study on the same module.
Project Team: Sharon XuerebCathy Schofield
It is vital for students to understand and uphold the principles of academic integrity throughout their studies. Although this is often a value that is promoted by higher education institutions from the outset, academic misconduct does appear to be a growing problem.
Project Team: Edward Wigley Sonja RewhornZoe Doye
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made headlines across the world that proclaim an existential threat to humanity, with ChatGPT being heralded as the beginning of a new era in technology. This scholarship project explores how this disruption could potentially lead to enhanced teaching
Project Team: Rosemary Golding Byron Dueck
This project considers some of the barriers students might face when moving onto the MA in Music, either from within the OU or with prior experience of higher education from external institutions.