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Category Archives: onlinestudent
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
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
Integrating online learning provision: What will schools take forward post-pandemic?
By Katharine Jewitt An 18-month research project is seeking to identify what online learning innovations schools can and will be keeping post-pandemic. Dr Katharine Jewitt reports on preliminary findings: As Covid restrictions are lifted, school leaders are beginning to plan … 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
A Virtual Reality Courtroom Project
By Dr Clare Jones & Francine Ryan Exciting new project The Open University Law School’s, Open Justice Centre, is embarking on an exciting new project which brings together technology and law to enable immersive and active learning to take place … Continue reading
Posted in covid19, e-learning, e-teaching, General, HE, Law School, online learning resources, Online teaching, onlinestudent, onlineteacher, onlineteaching, Open Justice, Open University, SCiLAB, Uncategorised
Tagged experiential learning, teaching innovation, virtual courts, virtual reality, virtual reality courtroom, virtual worlds, VR
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