Grants and Awards

  • Embedding and sustaining inclusive STEM practices
    Dr Trevor Collins, HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England, 1 Year, £923k
  • Cardiff Council Evaluation 
    Professor Martin Weller, HEFCW Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, 5 Months, £20k
  • Digital Decisions: Understanding teachers’ choices in online learning design and their impacts on learners in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Dr Tim Coughlan, British Council, 7 Months, £39k
  • Evidence-Validated Online Learning through Virtual Exchange
    Dr Mirjam Hauck, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP (inc. Erasmus), 2.5 Years, £68k
  • Developing a community-based mental health improvement programme in Guyana through inter-disciplinary participatory action research
    Dr Ann Mitchell, BRITAC British Academy, 1.5 Years, £80k
  • NERC Community for Engaging Environments – (via iSpotnature.org)
    Janice Ansine, NERC Natural Environment Research Council, 2 Years, £12k
  • CONNECT Inclusive open schooling through engaging and future-oriented science
    Dr Ale Okada, EC (European Commission): FP (inc. Horizon Europe, H2020, ERC), 3 Years, £253k
  • GO-GN Phase 3-Extension
    Professor Martin Weller, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 3 Years, £621k
  • European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education
    Dr Rob Farrow, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP (inc. Erasmus), 2 Years, £251k
  • Professional Learning on Professional Learning
    Dr Vicky Murphy, EARLI European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, 1 Year, £5k
  • Promoting students’ successful trajectories in Higher Education Institutions. (face-to-face and online).
    Chris Edwards, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP (inc. Erasmus), 3 Years, £41k
  • Accelerating the transition towards Edu 4.0 in HEIs
    Professor Bart Rienties, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP (inc. Erasmus), 3 Years, £112k
  • HS 1.029 Optimising Training and Education Efficiency of the Defence Learning Environment (DLE) and Flexible Classroom Pedagogies
    Professor Anne Adams, DSTL Defence Science and Technology, 1.5 Years, £21k
  • GO-GN Phase 3
    Professor Martin Weller, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 3 Years, £446k
  • Assistants to the Disclosure and Management of Information about Needs and Support (ADMINS)
    Dr. Tim Coughlan, Microsoft, 1 Year, £232k
  • ESRC Grand Union DTP: Professional Learning in Uncertainty
    Dr. Mark Fenton-O’Creevy, ESRC Economic and Social Research Council, 1 Year, £91k
  • European MOOC Consortium
    Dr. Rebecca Ferguson, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP, 3 Years, £67k
  • Developing a community-based mental health improvement programme in Guyana through inter-disciplinary participatory action research
    Dr. Ann Mitchell, BRITAC British Academy, 1.5 Years, £50k
  • Learning Arts for Peace: Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal
    Dr. Koula Charitonos, AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council, 4 Years, £40k
  • Flexible learning paths through online and blended short learning programs
    Dr. Liz Marr, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP, 3 Years, £30k
  • DEI Phase 2
    Dr. Corina Bossu, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 1 Year, £26k
  • Artificial Intelligence in Teaching
    Dr. Bart Rienties, EC: non-FP non-H2020 European Commission: non-FP, 2 Years, £14k
  • Can Maths Apps Add Value to Early Learning? A Systematic Review and Content Analysis
    Dr. Christothea Herodotou, Nuffield Foundation, 1 Year, £5k
  • AHRC GCRF Development Award: Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP)
    Dr. Koula Charitonos, AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2 Years, £4k

Previous Grants and Awards:

  • Linked Journeys: Linking learning analytics with study journey representations to understand patterns in students’ mental health
    Dr Tim Coughlan, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), 1 year, £24k
  • Evidence Cafe – MS Trust
    Professor Anne Adams, MS Trust Multiple Sclerosis Trust, 1 year, £3k
  • Civil society effectiveness – Extension of AMS 607532
    Dr Jude Fransman, FCDO Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 5 months, £25k
  • Civil society effectiveness – Ext of 607532 Oct 2019 – March 2020
    Dr Jude Fransman, FCDO Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 6 months, £24k
  • openTEL receives Open Education Consortium award for Open Research
  • EDUcating Citizens and organisations in Citizen Science methodologies
    Dr. Christothea Herodotou, ESRC, 5 months, £20k
  • OER World Map
    Dr. Rob Farrow, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2 years, £31.8k
  • UK Open Textbook Network
    Prof. Martin Weller, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 1 year, £224k
  • Data-informed Learning Design for Future Schools
    Dr. Wayne Holmes, BNU Beijing Normal University, China, 1 year, £14k
  • Evaluating and Upscaling Telecollaborative Teacher Education 
    Dr. Timothy Lewis, EC: H2020 European Commission, 2 years, £59k 
  • British Council MENA Research – Online Learning in Tertiary Education in MENA
    Prof. Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, British Council, 6 months, £9.9k
  • Evaluation of Telepresence in Theatre (Consultancy)
    Dr. Koula Charitonos, Coventry University, 1 month, £3.5k
  • Examining learning processes through the integration of two informal science learning approaches: Natural History Museum-led citizen science
    Dr. Christothea Herodotou, National Science Foundation, 4 years, £122k
  • m-Evaluate: Devising an evaluation framework for the design and use of mobile learning applications in early years’ education
    Dr. Christothea Herodotou, BRITAC British Academy, 1 year, £73.6k
  • Embedding and sustaining inclusive STEM practices
    Dr. Trevor Collins, Higher Education Funding Council in England (HEFCE), 2 years, £480k
  • Flexible learning paths through online and blended short learning programs
    Dr. Liz Marr, European Funding, 2 years, £30k
  • FIAP Evaluation for Refugee Action
    Dr. Koula Charitonos, Refugee Action, 1 year, £15k

To learn more about these projects please visit https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/opentel/research/opentel-projects/