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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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    How does recording affect Creative Writing tutorials:-a first-year review

    Project Team: Natalie LewisDonall MacCathmhaoillEmma Claire SweeneyLania Knight

    This mixed-methods project evaluated the introduction of the recording of online tutorials on OU Level 2 module, Creative Writing. The project investigated specific concerns and considerations around tutorial attendance, student participation, and the pedagogy of Creative Writing workshops.

    Assessing the effectiveness of targeted forum activities in relation to student retention

    Project Team: Emilie RutledgeRoberto SimonettiJulia Chukwuma

    This project considers student retention rates in relation to forum activity participation. While an array of factors—individual and institutional—impact these rates in Higher Education, creating a strong sense of student community is one organisational level measure that can addressed.

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experience of students who have been registered on the same module for one or more previous presentations, have either withdrawn, deferred, or been deregistered, and have subsequently returned to study on the same module.

    Transition to Postgraduate Study: the MA in Music

    Project Team: Rosemary Golding Byron Dueck

    This project considers some of the barriers students might face when moving onto the MA in Music, either from within the OU or with prior experience of higher education from external institutions.

    Implementing module team-led research skills-focused workshop events into a final year project module: An evaluation of student attitudes and outcomes

    Project Team: Louise NewbiggingJames MunroSimon HarrisonMaika Telga

    Investigating Psychology 3 (DE300) is the capstone Level 3 module in Psychology and Counselling with the Open University, in which students complete an independent research project over the course of the module.

    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.

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