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Improves and enhance the learning experience of students

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

Achieving HEA Accreditation: Does Working and Writing in the Presence of a Peer in an Online Space Assist Submission? 

Project Team: Malik RefaatCarina BossuPaige Cuffe

Addressing the White Racial Frame in OU Music’s Module Materials: Incorporating Active Debates to A342 Learning

Project Team: Marie ThompsonMartin Clarke Byron Dueck

Decolonising Religious Studies and Promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Project Team: Suzanne NewcombePaul-François TremlettJohn MaidenHugh BeattieMaria Nita

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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