Enhances employability and career progression
Enhances employability and career progression
Employability and Graduate Outcomes in the Arts and Humanities
Project leader(s): Richard Marsden Angeliki Lymberopoulou Joanne Fallows Ed Swithenby Sara Wolfson Beverley Mason Claire Blanchard
The school of Arts and Humanities faces some significant challenges around employability and graduate outcomes. There is an increasing emphasis on vocational subjects in the public discourse around university education.
Tracking retention and building community in distance music study
Project leader(s): Alexander Kolassa Lilian Simones
There are three objectives of this project (presented in order of priority):
Enhancing Student Retention, Progression and Attainment at Level 1 in Arts and Humanities by Increasing Student Recruitment to the Access Programme: An Investigation into Declining Student Numbers on Y031
Project leader(s): David Grummitt
The purpose of the project is to carry out an investigation into reasons for declining student numbers on Y031 J and B presentations. While there was some fluctuation across presentations in the first five years of the module, the overall trend since 2018J has been a marked decline in studen
SMART Feedback: Exploring the impact of action-focused student feedback on the student experience of learning
Project leader(s): Charlotte Lattin-Rawstrone
The proposed study intends to investigate the application of aspects of the research and framework through an intervention that builds on this framework with a specific focus on the reciprocal process and enactment of outcomes of feedback components by using SMART goals in the feedback process.
Supporting DD102 Students to Develop the ‘Reflection on and Articulation of Employability Skills’
Project leader(s): Ieman Hassan
The project aims are to draw on employability guidance to enable ALs through a practitioner enquiry to ‘make the components of employability explicit to students’ in order to further ‘support students in articulating their skills, values and behaviours gained and developed through their study at
Communication Strategies and the Tutor-Student Relationship
Project leader(s): Wendy Humphreys Vicky Johnson
One of the findings of our completed project, The Quality of Tutor-Student Early contact in Post Level 1 Modules, was the extreme variation in both the interpretation and practice of tutors, in terms of early communication within a module.
Developing an Approach to Networked Audio for Distance Learning in Music Practice
Project leader(s): Sean Williams Naomi Barker
This project examines the use of networked technologies for group music practice, within the context of a small group of 3-7 players.
Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
Project leader(s): Sue Nieland Ian McGarry Amita Sen-Gupta
In the age of digital information and high levels of technology in academic life, critical thinking skills are not just considered as an element of academic literacy; they have been interpreted in terms of the ability to use Microsoft Office and reference managing software effectively when underg
The OU and Scotland’s Colleges’ Collaborative Teaching Partnership: An Evaluation
Project leader(s): Gerry Mooney Janet Cole Iain Macpherson Steven McGeever Khadija Patel
The primary purpose of the proposed project was to:
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