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It is often assumed that OU tutors would not have any issues transferring to online tutorials when Covid hit. However, this was not the case. This blog shares how we supported our new and less experienced tutors to deliver successful online tutorials during the pandemic.

In this latest blog post, Carolin Decker-Lange (The Open University) and Knut Lange (Royal Holloway, University of London) discuss how universities nurture employability.

Higher Education is a vast and different world to navigate for any new student wishing to access it. For a student who is a care leaver, this journey can be even more daunting. This post explores a pilot project aimed at supporting care experienced students.

An 18-month research project is seeking to identify what online learning innovations schools can and will be keeping post-pandemic. Dr Katharine Jewitt reports on preliminary findings.

Charlotte Luckhurst and Liz Hardie describe a pilot programme of support for the increasing numbers of students choosing to study law at full-time intensity.

This blog updates readers of the key points from the evaluation and explains how we used that feedback to develop a second pilot peer mentoring scheme for the Law School.

Increasingly business schools and others tasked with teaching business skills are using business simulations as a key element of their offering.

OUBS academic Ruslan Ramanau asks whether it is plausible to incorporate asynchronous online discussions into pedagogical design of large-class distance courses?

There is growing recognition across the higher education sector that an institution’s leadership should be representative of wider society.

Virtual reality merges realism with new levels of interactivity providing students with a more immersive and experiential learning experience.