Project Team: Wendy HumphreysVicky Johnson
This project builds on a previously completed project which found considerable variation in how tutors communicate with their students at the beginning of a module.
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.
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:
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
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.
Project Team: Jonquil Lowe
DB125 You and Your Money replaced DB123 from October 2018J.
Project Team: Ieman Hassan
The project aims are to draw on employability guidance to enable ALs through a practitioner enquiry to ‘make the components of employability explicit to students’ in order to further ‘support students in articulating their skills, values and behaviours gained and developed through their study at
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.
Project Team: Zoe DoyeIeman HassanJoanna RobsonJudith Wilson-Hughes
We have been trialling tutor-led module-wide ‘you can do it’ catch-up sessions on three modules within SSGS (DD102 – 20J and 21B, DD206 – 20J and DD308 – 20J). DD206 and DD308 ran these sessions initially, with DD102, concerned at high numbers o
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.