Category Archives: motivation

Knowing what you are doing when you don’t know what you are doing…

Posted on 23rd September 2022 by Dawn Evelyn

By Amanda Smith …is, according to Schön (1994), the hallmark of a true professional. Whilst something of a polemic statement, it does seem to advocate the euphoric state that many of us may aspire to during our careers, but how? … Continue reading →

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Law Graduates’ Use of Extra-Curricular Activities to Get Started in the Legal Professions

Posted on 20th May 2022 by Dawn Evelyn

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 →

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Law Students and Extra-Curricular Activities in a Time of Pandemic

Posted on 28th April 2022 by Dawn Evelyn

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 →

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Badge attitude

Posted on 6th April 2022 by Dawn Evelyn

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 →

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Supporting Tutors in Adobe Connect

Posted on 21st February 2022 by Dawn Evelyn

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 →

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Supporting care experienced students: Piloting a project in the Faculty of Business and Law

Posted on 20th December 2021 by Dawn Evelyn

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 →

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Developing an integrated model of support for full-time students in a part-time world – a pilot

Posted on 16th November 2021 by Dawn Evelyn

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 →

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Can full time students succeed in a part time world?

Posted on 15th April 2021 by Dawn Evelyn

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 →

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The Experience of Teaching during a Pandemic

Posted on 12th February 2021 by Dawn Evelyn

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 →

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Exploring engagement with online interactivities: An introduction to our project

Posted on 22nd December 2020 by Jennie Slade

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 →

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