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The Quality of Tutor/Student Early Interaction in Post-Level 1 Modules

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.

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.

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.

Evaluating the Impact of ‘You Can Do It!’ Catch-up Sessions

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

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

Arts-based Collaborative Digital Eco-Pedagogies for Teaching about the Climate Crisis and Intersecting Global Challenges in Higher and Distance Education

Project Team: Maria NitaYoseph Araya

The project aims to start a cross-faculty conversation about the current use of novel reflective, digital, public engagement and teaching methodologies in Higher and distance education (Cooke, Araya, Bacon, et al. 2021; Walsh and Powell, 2019).

Decolonising Religious Studies and Promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Project Team: Suzanne NewcombePaul-François TremlettJohn MaidenHugh BeattieMaria Nita

Criminology: Where Do They Go? A Thematic Analysis of Final Year Criminology Students Pursuing Career Development or Career Change

Project Team: Deborah DrakeKaren Sharpe