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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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    Communication Strategies and the Tutor-Student Relationship

    Project Team: Wendy HumphreysVicky Johnson

    One of the findings of our completed project, The Quality of Tutor-Student Early contact in Post Level 1 Modules, was the extreme variation in both the interpretation and practice of tutors, in terms of early communication within a module.

    Tracking retention and building community in distance music study

    Project Team: Alexander KolassaLilian Simones

    There are three objectives of this project (presented in order of priority):

    The Experience of BAME Students on DE300

    Project Team: Sharon Xuereb

    It is well documented that Black and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) students are awarded lower grades at university than their White counterparts. In the UK, a first class and second upper class degree classifications are considered ‘good degrees’.

    Embedding Accessibility into the Curriculum: An Accessibility Tool as a Checklist

    Project Team: Rhiannon EdwardsShazna MuzammilVanessa Moore

    The Accessibility Tool is currently being piloted on modules presenting in 22B and 22J with the goal of disseminating the final version across OU by 23J.

    Closing the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Enquirer and Recruitment Gap in FASS

    Project Team: Karen HaganLystra Hagley-DickinsonPepta Joefield-BeebyAnna Clarke

    The BAME Insight Factsheet produced by Marketing demonstrated that there is a BAME enquirer gap in the OU.

    Understanding African Postgraduate Student Experience

    Project Team: Cristina SantosKevin DeaneFrangton Chiyemura Maureen Mackintosh

    The higher education sector has recognised and aims to address recruitment, retention, and award gaps of BAME students.

    Dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder): Understanding Students’ Requirements

    Project Team: Jo HorneRhiannon EdwardsAngela Eyre

    Developing Academic Integrity in Postgraduate Students

    Project Team: Sue NielandPaige Cuffe

    This project will explore the development of postgraduate students’ understanding and practice of academic integrity, that is of good academic conduct, focusing particularly on the module Principles of Social and Psychological Inquiry.

    Exploring Students’ Experiences of Full Time and Flexible Study Intensity on English and Creative Writing Qualifications

    Project Team: Hannah LaveryNatalie LewisClare SpencerDerek NealeLiz Ford

    Responding to Educational Need: Learnings from Time to Think

    Project Team: Philip O’SullivanGabi KentMichael Doorley

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