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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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    Understanding How Social Anxiety Affects Participation in Online Tutorials

    Project Team: Janet Hunter

    Personal and Empathetic Dialogue: An Investigation into the role of correspondence tuition in supporting student progression and retention

    Project Team: Zoe DoyeJudith Wilson-HughesLucy Rumney

    Raising Student Awareness of Employability Through Multiple Curriculum Adjustments at the Module Level

    Project Team: Jonquil Lowe

    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. 

    Understanding Student Learning of Emotive and Sensitive Content

    Project Team: Julia DownesRuth WallAnne Alvaer

    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

    Exploring the Use of WhatsApp in a Distance Learning Context

    Project Team: Zoe Doye

    The focus of the proposed scholarship project is to explore the perceived advantages and disadvantages to using WhatsApp within distance education. 

    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

    Pedagogies at the Intersection of Arts and Academia

    Project Team: Agnes Czajka

    Having co-led the Open University’s Tate Exchange initiative over the past three years, I have come to realise that a number of colleagues in FASS and other faculties have worked – or have expressed interest in working – at the intersection of arts and academia.

    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

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