Online and blended tuition

Creative Interactions: Teaching with the OU’s Art Collection

Project leader(s): Clare Taylor Heather Richardson

This pilot project brings together two disciplines from the School of Arts & Humanities, Creative Writing and Art History.

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).

The Quality of Tutor/Student Early Interaction in Post-Level 1 Modules

Project leader(s): Wendy Humphreys Vicky Johnson

This project builds on a previously completed project which found considerable variation in how tutors communicate with their students at the beginning of a module.

Face to Face Day schools: Understanding attendance and non-attendance on psychology modules

Project leader(s): Caroline Kelly Katy Smith Marianna Latif Rachel Penny Paige Cuffe Madeline Knightley

This project aimed to understand attendance for optional face-to-face tuition events on psychology modules. A mixed method approach was used to capture the student voice, and the five methods are presented here.