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Category Archives: HE
Agent Based Modelling and Scholarship
By Kevin Amor Recently I have started to use Agent Based Modelling (ABM) in my finance research. It occurred to me to wonder whether it had a place in scholarship work. A very quick search found some listings for ABM … Continue reading
Posted in Business School, e-learning, e-teaching, HE, online learning, Online teaching, Open University, research, SCiLAB, Uncategorised
Tagged abm, agent-based-modelling, computing, simulation, software
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Law Graduates’ Use of Extra-Curricular Activities to Get Started in the Legal Professions
By Andrew Gilbert and Jessica Giles This blog arises out of our SCiLAB-funded project, ‘An Exploration of the Use of Extra-Curricular Activities by Law Students and Alumni’, which we carried out during 2020-21. The project aimed to explore Open University … Continue reading
Badge attitude
By Terry O’Sullivan CREDIT Peter Keegan / Hulton Archive / Getty Images / Universal Images Group Rights Managed / For Education Use Only Have you joined the badgerati yet? Are you one of the growing number of people whose social media profiles, electronic … Continue reading
Teaching Student Police Officers: Breaking down barriers between academia and operational practice
By Ahmed Kadry and Jo Lambert In 2016, the College of Policing, the professional body in England and Wales that oversees training and development of police officers, introduced a new training delivery plan for all new police recruits: The Police … Continue reading
Posted in e-learning, e-teaching, feelings, General, HE, Open University, School for Policing, Uncategorised
Tagged Apprenticeships, online learning, PCDA, PEQF, Police learning
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Nurturing employability at British universities – entrepreneurship education as a vehicle
By Carolin Decker-Lange (The Open University) and Knut Lange (Royal Holloway, University of London) Since the 1980s, British universities have been under increasing scrutiny, accompanied by changes in regulation, funding, governmental surveillance and performance appraisal in research and teaching. As … Continue reading
Supporting care experienced students: Piloting a project in the Faculty of Business and Law
By Grace Allen, Catherine Comfort, Daniel Coxon, Sarah Henderson, Christine Mera & Joanna Mirek-Tooth Higher Education (HE) is a vast and different world to navigate for any new student wishing to access it. For a student who is a care … Continue reading
Developing an integrated model of support for full-time students in a part-time world – a pilot
By Charlotte Luckhurst and Liz Hardie Background Most students studying law at The Open University study 60 credits a year (equivalent to part-time study). However, the numbers of students choosing to study law at full-time intensity (120 credits a year) … Continue reading
Business simulation: stimulation for business learners
By Kevin Amor …simulations are perceived as educational and fun, a rare combination indeed! (Devasagyam, 2007) Increasingly business schools and others tasked with teaching business skills are using business simulations as a key element of their offering (see for example … Continue reading
Posted in Business School, e-learning, e-teaching, General, HE, online learning resources, Online teaching, onlinestudent, onlineteacher, onlineteaching, onlinetips, Open University, SCiLAB, Skills online, Uncategorised
Tagged #collaborate, #education, authentic, business, learning, simulation, team-based, technological
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Using asynchronous forums to support large-class teaching
By Ruslan Ramanau Large-class teaching has attracted the attention of educators across the globe in the last decade, mostly due to rapid growth in teaching and learning contexts with large teacher-to-student ratios, such as massive online courses (MOOCs). But is … Continue reading
Challenging the norm in academic recruitment
By Grace Allen, Joanna Mirek-Tooth, Christine Mera & Charlotte Luckhurst There is growing recognition across the higher education sector that an institution’s leadership should be representative of wider society. As institutions strive to ensure diversity is championed and that diverse viewpoints are … Continue reading
Posted in Business School, e-teaching, feelings, General, HE, Law School, onlineteaching, Open University, SCiLAB, teachingidentity, Uncategorised
Tagged Awarding gap, Diversity, Ethnicity, Inclusion, Recruitment, Teaching
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