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:
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.
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Project leader(s): Zoe Doye Judith Wilson-Hughes Lucy Rumney
This study links together research on the role of feedback/correspondence tuition in student engagement and student retention and progression.
Project leader(s): Jonquil Lowe
DB125 You and Your Money replaced DB123 from October 2018J.
Project leader(s): Zoe Doye Ieman Hassan
This project aims to explore whether the granting of extensions to TMA cut off dates has any impact on student retention and whether there is a relationship between TMAs and extensions in relation to different student groups at Level 1.
Project leader(s): Julia Downes Ruth Wall Anne Alvaer
This ongoing project investigates how diverse distance students learn about sensitive and emotive topics in an undergraduate introductory criminology module.
Project leader(s): Judith Wilson-Hughes Tatiana Blackmore Liz Wright
The idea for this scholarship project stemmed from the search for alternative routes of professional development which can be offered to Associate Lecturers (tutors). The recent changes in teaching practice following the introduction of the group tuition policy in 2016 brought a shift
Project leader(s): Zoe Doye
The focus of the proposed scholarship project is to explore the perceived advantages and disadvantages to using WhatsApp within distance education.
Project leader(s): Alison Penn
Submitting an assignment is usually accompanied by a sense of relief but then there is the wait for the mark and the feedback which can cause anxiety amongst students. This is particularly the case for the first assignment on a new module and happened with DD212 Understanding Criminolo
Project leader(s): Agnes Czajka
Having co-led the Open University’s Tate Exchange initiative over the past three years, I have come to realise that a number of colleagues in FASS and other faculties have worked – or have expressed interest in working – at the intersection of arts and academia.
Project leader(s): Stefanie Sinclair John Maiden
This project critically evaluated the effectiveness and wider applicability of a creative and collaborative assessment activity included in the new OU Religious Studies module A227 ‘Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences’ (TMA01), presented for the first time in October 2017
Project leader(s): Tatiana Blackmore Judith Wilson-Hughes Liz Wright
This is a project building on the findings of "An Investigation into the use of Peer Observation as a Tool for Professiona