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This blog features a wide variety of articles on various aspects of online teaching and learning in business and law.

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Navigating the Digital Transformation of Business and Law Education: Insights from "Creativity and Critique in Digital Learning and Teaching” (Baxter, Selby-Fell and Gilbert, 2025)

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.

3rd April 2025

A journey into the unknown: Valuing marginalised voices: a co-creation approach to improving student experience

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.

17th March 2025
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Educating Prisoners: The Importance of Relationships

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.

3rd March 2025

Championing success at The Open University (OU): How the Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) Module Champions are harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support tutors and students

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.

27th January 2025

Force feeding? What makes good written feedback and how much is too much?

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.

16th December 2024

Can monitoring enhance my teaching practice? The latest scholarship research within The Open University suggests it can

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.

3rd December 2024
Matthew with Harriet and Charles

Taking an international collaboration in higher education forward

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.

6th November 2024

Enhancing distance learning student experience by creating a feeling of belonging

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.

4th September 2024
OU graduates at ceremony

Unlocking potential: Scholarship reveals student success strategies

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

9th July 2024

Learning to work whilst working to learn: Is the degree apprenticeship a route for me?

Being a degree apprenticeship student is a demanding experience. We are often asked by prospective students: how do they do it, and what is it like? In this blog we aim to answer some of those questions.

6th June 2024

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