Grants and Awards

Embedding and sustaining inclusive STEM practices
Dr Trevor Collins, HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England, 1 Year, £923k

Cardiff Council Evaluation 
Professor Martin Weller, HEFCW Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, 5 Months, £20k

Digital Decisions: Understanding teachers’ choices in online learning design and their impacts on learners in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dr Tim Coughlan, British Council, 7 Months, £39k

Evidence-Validated Online Learning through Virtual Exchange
Dr Mirjam Hauck, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP (inc. Erasmus), 2.5 Years, £68k

Developing a community-based mental health improvement programme in Guyana through inter-disciplinary participatory action research
Dr Ann Mitchell, BRITAC British Academy, 1.5 Years, £80k

NERC Community for Engaging Environments – (via iSpotnature.org)
Janice Ansine, NERC Natural Environment Research Council, 2 Years, £12k

CONNECT Inclusive open schooling through engaging and future-oriented science
Dr Ale Okada, EC (European Commission): FP (inc. Horizon Europe, H2020, ERC), 3 Years, £253k

GO-GN Phase 3-Extension
Professor Martin Weller, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 3 Years, £621k

European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education
Dr Rob Farrow, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP (inc. Erasmus), 2 Years, £251k

Professional Learning on Professional Learning
Dr Vicky Murphy, EARLI European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, 1 Year, £5k

Promoting students’ successful trajectories in Higher Education Institutions. (face-to-face and online).
Chris Edwards, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP (inc. Erasmus), 3 Years, £41k

Accelerating the transition towards Edu 4.0 in HEIs
Professor Bart Rienties, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP (inc. Erasmus), 3 Years, £112k

HS 1.029 Optimising Training and Education Efficiency of the Defence Learning Environment (DLE) and Flexible Classroom Pedagogies
Professor Anne Adams, DSTL Defence Science and Technology, 1.5 Years, £21k

GO-GN Phase 3
Professor Martin Weller, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 3 Years, £446k

Assistants to the Disclosure and Management of Information about Needs and Support (ADMINS)
Dr. Tim Coughlan, Microsoft, 1 Year, £232k

ESRC Grand Union DTP: Professional Learning in Uncertainty
Dr. Mark Fenton-O’Creevy, ESRC Economic and Social Research Council, 1 Year, £91k

European MOOC Consortium
Dr. Rebecca Ferguson, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP, 3 Years, £67k

Developing a community-based mental health improvement programme in Guyana through inter-disciplinary participatory action research
Dr. Ann Mitchell, BRITAC British Academy, 1.5 Years, £50k

Learning Arts for Peace: Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal
Dr. Koula Charitonos, AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council, 4 Years, £40k

Flexible learning paths through online and blended short learning programs
Dr. Liz Marr, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP, 3 Years, £30k

DEI Phase 2
Dr. Corina Bossu, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 1 Year, £26k

Artificial Intelligence in Teaching
Dr. Bart Rienties, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP, 2 Years, £14k

Can Maths Apps Add Value to Early Learning? A Systematic Review and Content Analysis
Dr. Christothea Herodotou, Nuffield Foundation, 1 Year, £5k

AHRC GCRF Development Award: Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP)
Dr. Koula Charitonos, AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2 Years, £4k

Previous Grants and Awards:

Linked Journeys: Linking learning analytics with study journey representations to understand patterns in students’ mental health
Dr Tim Coughlan, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), 1 year, £24k

Evidence Cafe – MS Trust
Professor Anne Adams, MS Trust Multiple Sclerosis Trust, 1 year, £3k

Civil society effectiveness – Extension of AMS 607532
Dr Jude Fransman, FCDO Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 5 months, £25k

Civil society effectiveness – Ext of 607532 Oct 2019 – March 2020
Dr Jude Fransman, FCDO Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 6 months, £24k

openTEL receives Open Education Consortium award for Open Research

EDUcating Citizens and organisations in Citizen Science methodologies
Dr. Christothea Herodotou, ESRC, 5 months, £20k

OER World Map
Dr. Rob Farrow, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2 years, £31.8k

UK Open Textbook Network
Prof. Martin Weller, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 1 year, £224k

Data-informed Learning Design for Future Schools
Dr. Wayne Holmes, BNU Beijing Normal University, China, 1 year, £14k

Evaluating and Upscaling Telecollaborative Teacher Education 
Dr. Timothy Lewis, EC: H2020 European Commission, 2 years, £59k 

British Council MENA Research – Online Learning in Tertiary Education in MENA
Prof. Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, British Council, 6 months, £9.9k

Evaluation of Telepresence in Theatre (Consultancy)
Dr. Koula Charitonos, Coventry University, 1 month, £3.5k

Examining learning processes through the integration of two informal science learning approaches: Natural History Museum-led citizen science
Dr. Christothea Herodotou, National Science Foundation, 4 years, £122k

m-Evaluate: Devising an evaluation framework for the design and use of mobile learning applications in early years’ education
Dr. Christothea Herodotou, BRITAC British Academy, 1 year, £73.6k

Embedding and sustaining inclusive STEM practices
Dr. Trevor Collins, Higher Education Funding Council in England (HEFCE), 2 years, £480k

Flexible learning paths through online and blended short learning programs
Dr. Liz Marr, European Funding, 2 years, £30k

FIAP Evaluation for Refugee Action
Dr. Koula Charitonos, Refugee Action, 1 year, £15k

To learn more about these projects please visit https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/opentel/research/opentel-projects/