Blog

This blog post introduces "Creativity and Critique: Digital Learning and Teaching: Insights for Learning Design in Business and Law," edited by Jacqueline Baxter, Helen Selby-Fell and Andrew Gilbert. This book, for release in May 2025 by Palgrave Macmillan, offers a comprehensive exploration of the shifts within business and law schools, catalysed by technological advancements and the unforeseen push online due to global challenges.

This blog reports on the joint work carried out by the OU and Nottingham Trent University to develop alternative ways of consulting and creating with students from traditionally marginalised backgrounds, and the impact of these activities on students and staff.

In this blog lecturer in law, Kate Ritchie, explores the importance of the relationships that arise as a result of prison education and the relevance of this to a prisoner’s desistance journey.

Student retention is a complex challenge, particularly within online distance learning. In this blog Nicola McDowell and Claire Maguire explore how Predictive Learning Analytics in conjunction with introducing ‘Dashboard Module Champions’ can transform how we support students.

In this blog Daniel Russell, lecturer and Student Experience Manager, explores what makes good feedback and how this plays into the retention of students in Higher Education.

The Open University uses a process called 'monitoring' to review a sample of marked assessments and provide feedback to tutors on the gradings and feedback provided to students. In this blog, Allan Mooney and Janette Wallace explore how monitoring can enhance teaching practice in Higher Education.

This blogpost explores how FBL at the OU have collaborated with the Institute of Open, Distance and e-Learning (IODeL) at Makerere University in Uganda to enhance the delivery of a range of both face-to-face and online learning opportunities.

Carol Edwards and Liz Hardie share their approach to combating isolation and fostering a sense of belonging in the distance-learning environment through the introduction of the “Belonging Project” at the Open University Law School.

In this blogpost we explain the best methods to ensure student success for students from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds.