What would happen if common sources of social anxiety were removed from the online teaching environment? What would a ‘relaxed’ learning experience look like? Find out more about a FASSTEST project which explored this www5.open.ac.uk/scholarship-an… Dr Cora Beth Fraser OU Arts & Social Sciences

📣 Upcoming events on OpportunityHub! Job search strategy - live workshops 📅 Tue 6 Feb Teach First: Pioneering paths into teaching - webinar 📅 Wed 7 Feb Empower your journey: Unlocking the rewards of volunteering 📅 Thu 8 Feb Find out more here opportunityhub.open.ac.uk/students/events

The results of our annual impact and dissemination survey are in! We’re so pleased to hear that 98% of our project teams thought their FASSTEST project led to an increase in understanding or awareness of an issue. OU Arts & Social Sciences #EnhancingScholarship #SoTL

Congratulations to Kaya Davies Hayon and Dr Mark Fryers who have received FASSTEST funding for their project looking at co-designing inclusive and accessible distance learning film and media curriculum at Level 1 in the new School of Creative Industries OU Arts & Social Sciences #SoTL 🎬

We're really looking forward to this OU SCiLAB, we think it's going to be a great day!

Registration is now open for the Praxis Festival of Scholarship 2024! We will hear from many of our Praxis project leads as well as our keynote speaker Dr Felix Kwihangana. OU Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies @OUStudents Further details and registration (OU login required): openuniv.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet…

In our latest blog post,Encarna Trinidad shares insights into attendance, attainment and completion. Come and read about the practical project recommendations www5.open.ac.uk/scholarship-an…. OU Arts & Social Sciences #SoTL

This should be a fantastic morning OU Arts & Social Sciences

We can't wait!

If you’ve got a few minutes spare, please take a look at our FASSTEST project page- www5.open.ac.uk/scholarship-an…. They’ll be a topic to interest everyone. OU Arts & Social Sciences

“I thought the whole thing was brilliant!” Thank you for all the lovely feedback we’ve received from our 2024 FASSTEST Writing Retreat. Thanks also to writing coach Will Medd for getting us writing OU Arts & Social Sciences #amwriting

We've just over a week to go. Looking forward to seeing you there OU Arts & Social Sciences

Does peer interaction in online tutorials impact the student experience? You can find out more about Eimear and Katie’s FASSTEST fantastic project here www5.open.ac.uk/scholarship-an… OU Arts & Social Sciences OU_Psychology&Counselling

Final reminder for our first combined Festival of Scholarship with OU FASSTEST where we'll share our research findings and identify areas of common interest across the two faculties. Open to The Open University staff and students. Get in touch for more info!

Walking and talking could be one of the most effective forms of therapy. This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek is all about the benefit of movement, but it's not just moving your limbs that can help! 💬 Read more about it in our #MHAW collection: open.edu/openlearn/heal…

💙We had a fantastic morning, thank you to all those that attended and our fabulous presenters including Dr Cora Beth Fraser , Dr. Ahmed Kadry

Our latest blog post looks at using a writing partnership with a peer to support an HEA Fellowship submission OU_Psychology&Counselling www5.open.ac.uk/scholarship-an…

We’ve had a brilliant project team presenting at the annual DART-P conference, OU_Psychology&Counselling. As a bonus the team were reunited with colleagues they hadn't seen for ages. www5.open.ac.uk/scholarship-an…