Supporting students

Students taking qualifications mainly in science, economics and data sciences are now the majority of the students on a second-year undergraduate statistics course.

Open University standard online tutorials are generally tutor-led with the tutor setting the agenda and content to be covered. Although they include both presentation and activities, some students are reluctant to actively participate.

In recent years tutors have been asked to commit to a timetable of tutorials some time before the start of a module so that a full list of available tutorials can be provided to students as soon as they start their studies.

Highly Commended - eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2022.

The aim of this project is to investigate the success of using the diagnostic AYRF ('Are You Ready For') quizzes and their role in preparing undergraduate students for their level 2 modules (TT284 (Web technologies) M269 (Algorithms, data structures & computability) and M250

Winner - eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2022.

​Winner - Best Poster Competition, 9th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2020.

In 2019 twenty-one modules volunteered to pilot a new OU Study App (The Open University, 2019); since January 2021 all module websites are available.

Since 2016 the Learning Innovation team has been engaged in a series of research activities designed to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying study habits and learning behaviour of OU students, in order to inform the future development of pedagogy, systems, tools and platforms. Poten

Anecdotal evidence from ALs tutoring on some Level 1 Engineering modules seems to show that students on Engineering modules do not fully engage with the Learning Outcomes (LOs).