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Equality, diversity and inclusion

The Relaxed Tutorial Project

Project leader(s):  Trevor Fear Naoko Yamagata Cora Beth Fraser

‘Relaxed’ events are held across the Arts sector, primarily as a means of accommodating neurodiversity, but also as a way of suiting other specific needs.

Planning Online Conferences in the Arts and Social Sciences

Project leader(s):  Maria Nita Stefanie Sinclair David Robertson Alison Kirkbright Heather Scott

The foci of this project is to understand best practice in (1) the delivery of online conferences; (2) promoting and hosting; and (3) engagement and inclusion. Consequently, the research questions are:

Investigating tuition attendance in Arts & Humanities: Stage 2

Project leader(s):  Robin Mackie Steve Padley Maddy Sharman Jen Shepherd Astrid Voigt

In our previous project we were able to use data from the LEM system to explore student attendance in tuition from across the Arts & Humanities programme.

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:

Investigating tutorial attendance on synchronous face-to-face and online classroom events on Arts modules

Project leader(s):  Robin Mackie Astrid Voigt Jen Shepherd Steve Padley Maddy Sharman Michelle Hynd

The project looked at quantitative data for the three academic years starting in October 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Trialling multiple innovations; production, pedagogy and delivery on A329, the Making of Welsh History

Project leader(s):  Richard Marsden

Independent learning is usually envisaged as something that students do alone. But on ‘A329, The Making of Welsh History’, an online distance-learning dissertation module at the Open University, the situation is quite the reverse.

Understanding the influence of demographics on attendance and access of synchronous and asynchronous online tuition

Project leader(s):  Lindsay Crisp Melissa Bailey Hannah Lavery Donna Smith Katy Smith Joanna Robson

This project draws together a team of colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences to explore participation in ‘live’ online learning events and summary recordings with no students present known as ‘Learning Event Summaries’ (LES).

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