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FASSTEST brings together colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, providing a mechanism for professional development through practice-based scholarship within a mentored community.

Much of our work is organised on a project basis with project management aimed at the delivery of new educational outcomes and scholarship outcomes. FASSTEST supports a rolling portfolio of approximately 40 active scholarship projects under a number of themes which include:

  • Online and blended tuition
  • Assessment
  • Employability/careers
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Multisensory/multimodal learning

If you are interested in learning more about a particular project or connecting with a project team, please contact us at FASS-Scholarship@open.ac.uk

Projects

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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.

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.