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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
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
Professor Suzanne Rab Takes a Critical Look at Critical Thinking
By Professor Suzanne Rab Critical thinking is a vital skill at university, and in life. Despite its frequent endorsement in education, there is no clear consensus about what it means in practice. Rather like the elusive search for a definition of … 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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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
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