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Enables more students to achieve their study goals

Enables more students to achieve their study goals

Improving the Retention and Progression of Students on the Arts and Humanities Access Module at the Open University

Project Team: Hannah LaverySteve PadleyAnactoria Clarke

Decolonising Religious Studies and Promoting Student Retention

Project Team: Suzanne NewcombePaul-François TremlettJohn MaidenHugh Beattie

Proscribed Fictions: The Place of Colonial and/or Racist Literature in Curricular Decolonisation

Project Team: Alex TickellMichael O'FlynnAngela Eyre

The Role of Peer-to-Peer Mentoring in a Distance Learning University: An Evaluation of a Three-Year Pilot in the Arts and Social Sciences

Project Team: Joanna RobsonTina ForbesSue Watkins

Does Wi-Fi/Data Connectivity Disadvantage OU Students?

Project Team: Sonja RewhornVicky Johnson

Since March 2020 many of us have had to move to working from home using our home internet whether as Wi-Fi or data.  As well as work shifting to online, The Open University also moved all its tuition seminars online.    

Criminology: Where Do They Go? A Thematic Analysis of Final Year Criminology Students Pursuing Career Development or Career Change

Project Team: Deborah DrakeKaren Sharpe

Dyslexia: Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Success at Postgraduate Study

Project Team: Rhiannon EdwardsJo Horne

Flexible Study Intensity in Arts and Humanities: Classical Studies and History

Project Team: Elayne ChaplinTrevor FearAnna PlassartSuzanne Forbes

Academic Conduct Matters: Assessing the Impact of Academic and Disciplinary Interventions on Student’s Retention, Progression, and Completion

Project Team: Encarnacion Trinidad-Barrantes

This project is primarily concerned with investigating historic data (2011-2020) on referrals for poor academic practice in order to determine: 

Arts-based Collaborative Digital Eco-Pedagogies for Teaching about the Climate Crisis and Intersecting Global Challenges in Higher and Distance Education

Project Team: Maria NitaYoseph Araya

The project aims to start a cross-faculty conversation about the current use of novel reflective, digital, public engagement and teaching methodologies in Higher and distance education (Cooke, Araya, Bacon, et al. 2021; Walsh and Powell, 2019).

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