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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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    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.

    An examination of social and cultural factors that may affect engagement in study activities linked to academic writing skills

    Project Team: Sharon XuerebCathy Schofield

    It is vital for students to understand and uphold the principles of academic integrity throughout their studies. Although this is often a value that is promoted by higher education institutions from the outset, academic misconduct does appear to be a growing problem.

    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

    Evaluating the Impact of ‘Write Now’ Sessions: Adapting Approaches from Academic Writing Retreats to Create a Learning Community of Student Writers (Phase 2)

    Project Team: Debbie Parker-Kinch Anactoria ClarkeJasmine Hunter EvansHannah Lavery

    Phase 1 of this scholarship project piloted and evaluated ‘Write Now’ sessions on the Open University undergraduate English Literature module A233 ‘Telling Stories: the novel and beyond’, during the 2022-23 academic year.

    Exploring Welsh medium tuition in Psychology and Counselling OU modules at Level 1 – Phase 1

    Project Team: Emma Roberts Sue StradlingNia Coles-Jones

    The Welsh Government’s strategic framework aims to increase the number of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050.

    Impact on formal points of tutor contact on student outcome and experience on new L1 module D120

    Project Team: Marianna LatifAlicia Townshend

    This study aims to explore the impact of early tutor contact on the D120 module, looking at the student experience, the tutor relationship and retention and progression. D120 is a new level 1 psychology module which started in October 2023.

    Co-designing inclusive and accessible distance learning film and media curriculum at Level 1

    Project Team: Kaya Davies-HayonMark Fryers

    This project originates from the new Department of Film and Media and aims at designing a new Level One curriculum with diversity and inclusivity embedded as its core principles.

    Students' Experience of Research Methods Teaching Level 2

    Project Team: Jennifer Mattschey

    The project investigates Psychology students’ perception of both quantitative and qualitative research methods teaching at level 2, with the aim to identify new and more effective approaches to teaching these topics.

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