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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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    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 How Social Anxiety Affects Participation in Online Tutorials

    Project Team: Janet Hunter

    An Enquiry into the Impact of TMA Extensions: Stage 1

    Project Team: Zoe DoyeIeman Hassan

    This project aims to explore whether the granting of extensions to TMA cut off dates has any impact on student retention and whether there is a relationship between TMAs and extensions in relation to different student groups at Level 1. 

    An Investigation into the Use of Peer Observation as a Tool for Professional Development and an Aid to Developing a Professional Evaluative Culture Among Associate Lecturers

    Project Team: Judith Wilson-HughesTatiana BlackmoreLiz Wright

    Reducing Student Anxiety Whilst Waiting for their Marked Assignments

    Project Team: Alison Penn

    Submitting an assignment is usually accompanied by a sense of relief but then there is the wait for the mark and the feedback which can cause anxiety amongst students.  This is particularly the case for the first assignment on a new module and happened with DD212 Understandi

    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

    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.

    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