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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 the influence of demographics on attendance and access of synchronous and asynchronous online tuition

    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).

    Investigating tutorial attendance on synchronous face-to-face and online classroom events on Arts modules

    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.

    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.

    Investigating tuition attendance in Arts & Humanities: Stage 2

    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.

    Planning Online Conferences in the Arts and Social Sciences

    Project Team: Maria NitaStefanie SinclairDavid RobertsonAlison KirkbrightHeather Scott

    The foci of this project is to understand best practice in (1) the delivery of online conferences; (2) promoting and hosting; and (3) engagement and inclusion. Consequently, the research questions are:

    The Relaxed Tutorial Project

    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.

    Challenges of Distance Teaching Masters in International Relations

    Project Team: William Brown

    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

    Developing an Approach to Networked Audio for Distance Learning in Music Practice

    Project Team: Sean WilliamsNaomi Barker

    This project examines the use of networked technologies for group music practice, within the context of a small group of 3-7 players.

    Communication Strategies and the Tutor-Student Relationship

    Project Team: Wendy HumphreysVicky Johnson

    One of the findings of our completed project, The Quality of Tutor-Student Early contact in Post Level 1 Modules, was the extreme variation in both the interpretation and practice of tutors, in terms of early communication within a module.

    Embedding Employability Resources in DB125: An Evaluation

    Project Team: Jonquil Lowe

    DB125 You and Your Money replaced DB123 from October 2018J.

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