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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).

Trialling multiple innovations; production, pedagogy and delivery on A329, the Making of Welsh History

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.

Creative Interactions: Teaching with the OU’s Art Collection

Project Team: Clare TaylorHeather Richardson

This pilot project brings together two disciplines from the School of Arts & Humanities, Creative Writing and Art History.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tracking retention and building community in distance music study

Project Team: Alexander KolassaLilian Simones

There are three objectives of this project (presented in order of priority):

Employability and Graduate Outcomes in the Arts and Humanities

Project Team: Richard MarsdenAngeliki LymberopoulouJoanne FallowsEd SwithenbySara WolfsonBeverley MasonClaire Blanchard

The school of Arts and Humanities faces some significant challenges around employability and graduate outcomes. There is an increasing emphasis on vocational subjects in the public discourse around university education.

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.