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Improves and enhance the learning experience of students

Improves and enhance the learning experience of students

Strengthening the PhD Culture in the School of Psychology & Counselling

Project Team: Eleni AndreouliSimon ClarkeJulian Bond

A longstanding challenge faced by students and educators alike is the difficulty in maintaining an active PhD research culture, which, in turn, can have a negative impact on doctoral students’ progression and in the quality of their studies. The reasons of this are multiple.

Level 1 Progression and Qualification Pathways: A Case Study in History

Project Team: Linda BriggsElayne ChaplinSuzanne Forbes

Open University students usually register for a specific degree when they begin their studies, but are able to change to a different degree pathway at various points while they are studying.

Monitoring the monitoring: Exploring the impact of structured monitoring meetings on DE100 monitor satisfaction, dialogue and feedback

Project Team: Charlotte Lattin-Rawstrone

The Open University is unique in its provision of distance learning provision to a vast number of learners. Distance tuition relies on a high standard of correspondence tuition as it is the feedback that students receive that is the basis of their personalised learning journey.

Take a Picture of Religion

Project Team: Stefanie SinclairJohn Maiden

This project critically evaluated the effectiveness and wider applicability of a creative and collaborative assessment activity included in the new OU Religious Studies module A227 ‘Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences’ (TMA01), presented for the first time in October 2017

Evaluating the Inclusion of Academic Coaching within an Online-Only Postgraduate Module (DD801)

Project Team: Lucy WildeKesi MahendranKate Garland

The central aim of the project is to evaluate the academic coaching provided in DD801.

Pedagogies at the Intersection of Arts and Academia

Project Team: Agnes Czajka

Having co-led the Open University’s Tate Exchange initiative over the past three years, I have come to realise that a number of colleagues in FASS and other faculties have worked – or have expressed interest in working – at the intersection of arts and academia.

Improving the Diversity of the History Curriculum

Project Team: John SlightLuc-Andre Brunet

The purpose of this scholarship project is to investigate student attitudes towards the racial and ethnic diversity of the existing History curriculum, gather information about this issue from experienced ALs who teach on History modules, and consult with academics at other universities on their

Reducing Student Anxiety Whilst Waiting for their Marked Assignments

Project Team: Alison Penn

Submitting an assignment is usually accompanied by a sense of relief but then there is the wait for the mark and the feedback which can cause anxiety amongst students.  This is particularly the case for the first assignment on a new module and happened with DD212 Understandi

Teaching Sensitive Topics

Project Team: Stephen RobinsonDavid Morrison