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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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    Achieving HEA Accreditation: Does Working and Writing in the Presence of a Peer in an Online Space Assist Submission? 

    Project Team: Malik RefaatCarina BossuPaige Cuffe

    Dyslexia: Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Success at Postgraduate Study

    Project Team: Rhiannon EdwardsJo Horne

    Supporting Younger Students with Weekly Communications

    Project Team: Sue Nieland

    University Connectedness, Relational Depth, Wellbeing, Anxiety, and Academic Achievement in FASS Students

    Project Team: Gina Di MaltaNaomi MollerKaty Smith

    Improving the Collaborative TMA on DE200 and Assessing the Impact of these Improvements on AL Satisfaction

    Project Team: Tracey Elder

    Exploring Dissertation Students’ Experiences of Working with Ethical Issues when Undertaking their Dissertation Research

    Project Team: Jenny Lynden

    Making the Most of Monitoring

    Project Team: Sue Nieland

    As one of the largest universities in Europe, and the largest in the UK, the quantity of assessment that has to be carried out by tutors at the Open University is far greater than in most institutions.

    Identifying Future Directions: Where do Final Year Psychology and Counselling Students Find Information about Postgraduate Study?

    Project Team: Rhiannon EdwardsMary Dobson

    Research question: Where do final year Psychology and Counselling students gain information about postgraduate study? 

    (Not) On My Own: Using Online Communities of Practice (CoP) to Encourage Development of Academic Identity of Distance Tutor

    Project Team: Marianna LatifMalik Refaat

    Teaching Sensitive Topics

    Project Team: Stephen RobinsonDavid Morrison

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