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Dr Kathy Chandler

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Lecturer in Online Teaching
  • Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies
  • Institute of Educational Technology
  • kathy.chandler

Professional biography

I am a Lecturer in Online Teaching in the Institute of Educational Technology. My role has a particular focus on writing course content and evaluating microcredential courses.

My background is in adult nursing, health visiting and community development. I joined the Open University in 2003 as an associate lecturer. I have extensive experience of tutoring students studying health and social care and in supporting colleagues to develop their skills in inclusive online teaching. I am a Senior Fellow of the HEA.

Research interests

My research interests include online communities and digital pedagogy. My doctoral research used voice-centred relational method (VCRM) to analyse student narratives of experiences of synchronous online tuition in health and social care.

Teaching interests

I chair the microcredential course HZFM882 Online Teaching: Evaluating and Improving Courses.

I currently supervise one EdD postgraduate researcher

  • Student voice: An active ingredient for the design of effective online and distance higher education

I have managed health and education programmes for refugees and host communities in Tanzania.

Publications

How and with whom do educators learn in an online professional development microcredential (2023-07-14)
Rienties, Bart; Calò, Francesca; Corcoran, Suz; Chandler, Kathy; FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Haslam, Daniel; Harris, Claire A.; Perryman, Leigh-Anne; Sargent, Julia; Suttle, Martin and Wahga, Aqueel
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 8, Article 100626(1)

‘People have Started Calling Me an Expert’: The Impact of Open University Microcredential Courses (2023)
Chandler, Kathy and Perryman, Leigh-Anne
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2023, Article 8(1)

Students’ experiences of synchronous online tuition in health and social care (2022)
Chandler, Kathy
Research in Learning Technology, 30

Adapting voice-centred relational method to understand students’ experiences of synchronous online tuition (2022)
Chandler, Kathy
International Journal of Research & Method in Education ((Early Access))

Practice and the professional doctorate: a diffractive re-reading (2022)
Dennis, Carol Azumah; Chandler, Kathy and Puntil, Donata
Journal of Further and Higher Education ((Early access))

Using Breakout Rooms in Synchronous Online Tutorials (2016)
Chandler, Kathy
Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 4(3) (pp. 16-23)

Students' experiences of synchronous online tuition in health and social care (2022)
Chandler, Kathryn
edd thesis The Open University