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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.

    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:

    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

    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.

    Closing the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Enquirer and Recruitment Gap in FASS

    Project Team: Karen HaganLystra Hagley-DickinsonPepta Joefield-BeebyAnna Clarke

    The BAME Insight Factsheet produced by Marketing demonstrated that there is a BAME enquirer gap in the OU.

    Understanding African Postgraduate Student Experience

    Project Team: Cristina SantosKevin DeaneFrangton Chiyemura Maureen Mackintosh

    The higher education sector has recognised and aims to address recruitment, retention, and award gaps of BAME students.

    Responding to Educational Need: Learnings from Time to Think

    Project Team: Philip O’SullivanGabi KentMichael Doorley

    Exploring and Testing Anti-Racism and Decolonising Pedagogy in Online-Forum Learning

    Project Team: Alessandra MarinoGunjan SondhiKarl A. HackSuki Haider

    Embedding Inclusivity in Economics Curriculum Development

    Project Team: Kevin DeaneSusan NewmanLorena LombardozziFrancis Garikayi

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