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Supporting Learners with Mental Health Difficulties

Project Team: Anastasia Economou

This project aspires to provide helpful insights into how tutors can best teach and support students with mental health difficulties in a distance learning context. 

Exploring Dissertation Students’ Experiences of Working with Ethical Issues when Undertaking their Dissertation Research

Project Team: Jenny Lynden

Identifying Future Directions: Where do Final Year Psychology and Counselling Students Find Information about Postgraduate Study?

Project Team: Rhiannon EdwardsMary Dobson

Research question: Where do final year Psychology and Counselling students gain information about postgraduate study? 

Teaching Sensitive Topics

Project Team: Stephen RobinsonDavid Morrison

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.

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.

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.

Next Generation Paper for Geography Education

Project Team: George RevillBenjamin NewmanSonja Rewhorn

Next Generation Paper (NGP) is a technology that blends paper-based and web-based materials using a freely downloadable phone app with page recognition that was developed as part of a 36-month ESRPC-funded project between the University of Surrey and OU.

Diversifying End of Module Assessment project options on a Level 3 Classical Studies module - Benefits and Challenges for students and lecturers

Project Team: Astrid VoigtEmma Bridges

This project investigates the benefits and challenges – for both students and educators – of an innovative assessment format which aims to make assessment more inclusive and authentic for Classical Studies students.

Assessing the effectiveness of targeted forum activities in relation to student retention

Project Team: Emilie RutledgeRoberto SimonettiJulia Chukwuma

This project considers student retention rates in relation to forum activity participation. While an array of factors—individual and institutional—impact these rates in Higher Education, creating a strong sense of student community is one organisational level measure that can addressed.