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Category Archives: motivation
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
Law Students and Extra-Curricular Activities in a Time of Pandemic
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 (OU) … Continue reading
Posted in feelings, General, Law School, motivation, onlinestudent, Open University, SCiLAB, students, Uncategorised
Tagged Covid19, employability, law extra-curricular activities, pandemic
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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
Supporting Tutors in Adobe Connect
By Carol Edwards & Andrew Maxfield In this blog we plan to share how we supported our new and less experienced tutors to deliver successful online tutorials during the Covid pandemic. As the leading provider of distance online learning, it … 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
Can full time students succeed in a part time world?
by Carey Stephens The number of students registered to study at full time intensity was over 28% of all new learners at the Open University in Autumn 2020. My own Faculty of Business & Law recorded an increase, from Autumn 2019, of almost 200 fulltime intensity students registered on the Business & Management … Continue reading
Posted in Business School, e-learning, e-teaching, General, HE, motivation, Online teaching, onlinestudent, onlineteacher, onlineteaching, Open University, research, SCiLAB, students, Uncategorised
Tagged distance learning, flexible intensity study, motivation for study, student experience, student success
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The Experience of Teaching during a Pandemic
By Hilary Collins Back in January I published research on the academic experience of teaching and working online. Right now it feels rather timely. In our paper we discussed the precarity of a digital academic life, and examined how this … Continue reading
Posted in Business School, covid19, e-learning, e-teaching, feelings, General, HE, motivation, Online teaching, onlinestudent, onlineteacher, onlineteaching, Open University, SCiLAB, students
Tagged blog, business, Covid-19, Faculty of business and law, highered, highereducation, Hilary Collins, online teaching, Open University, Teaching and Learning, time management
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Exploring engagement with online interactivities: An introduction to our project
By Sarah Henderson and Ben Melluish A recent conversation with a colleague centred around that age-old question of how to get her son to eat his vegetables; a dilemma we are sure many parents will be familiar with. The young … Continue reading
Posted in e-learning, e-teaching, HE, motivation, Online teaching, onlinestudent, onlineteacher, onlineteaching, Open University, SCiLAB, students, Uncategorised
Tagged blog, Faculty of business and law, highered, highereducation, interactivity, learningdesign, online learning, online teaching, Open University
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Creating Emergency Remote Learning Environments in Response to COVID-19
By Michael Ngoasong The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is a nightmare for universities and businesses world-wide. Universities are turning to online remote teaching (Jack. A. and Moules, J. 2020) and requiring staff to work from home. Some of us … Continue reading