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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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    Take a Picture of Religion

    Project Team: Stefanie SinclairJohn Maiden

    This project critically evaluated the effectiveness and wider applicability of a creative and collaborative assessment activity included in the new OU Religious Studies module A227 ‘Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences’ (TMA01), presented for the first time in October 2017

    Further Investigation into the Use of Peer Observation for Professional Development: Piloting the AL Toolkit

    Project Team: Tatiana BlackmoreJudith Wilson-HughesLiz Wright

    This is a project building on the findings of "An Investigation into the use of Peer Observation as a Tool for Professiona

    Next Generation Paper for Geography Education

    Project Team: George RevillBenjamin NewmanSonja Rewhorn

    Next Generation Paper (NGP) is a technology that blends paper-based and web-based materials using a freely downloadable phone app with page recognition that was developed as part of a 36-month ESRPC-funded project between the University of Surrey and OU.

    Enhancing SiSE Student Experience

    Project Team: Jaime Waters

    This project arises from tutor experiences in teaching SISE (Students in Secure Environments) and derives from reflections on the difficulties that SiSE students face beyond access to printed materials, and how we can provide the best possible materials and support for SISE students.

    Who Watches the Watchers? Improving Teaching in FASS through the Monitoring Sign-Off Process

    Project Team: Kerry SomersetEmma Clarence

    Much of the quality assurance of teaching and learning at the Open University is undertaken through the monitoring of marked student assignments.

    Exploring the experience of ‘previously registered’ students

    Project Team: Janet HunterKaren Twiselton

    The aim of the project is to explore the experience of students who have been registered on the same module for one or more previous presentations, have either withdrawn, deferred, or been deregistered, and have subsequently returned to study on the same module.

    ChatGPT and the distance learner: working with AI to write assignments as the site of teaching and learning

    Project Team: Edward Wigley Sonja RewhornZoe Doye

    Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made headlines across the world that proclaim an existential threat to humanity, with ChatGPT being heralded as the beginning of a new era in technology.  This scholarship project explores how this disruption could potentially lead to enhanced teaching

    Learning from YouTube: Popular Culture and Geography Distance Education

    Project Team: Benjamin NewmanColin LorneGeorge Revill

    The purpose of this project is to explore the potential of thinking from popular and everyday online media spaces such as YouTube.

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