Spotlight on scholarship
OU research into how students learn and how best to teach them - what the OU refers to as scholarship - is going a long way towards improving the OU student experience.
Research into how students learn
Having a student buddy boosts motivation
Students benefit from having a buddy to play the role of mentor, according to a scheme run by the Faculty of Wellbeing Education and Languages (WELS).
Studying later in the day could work better
Research has discovered that productivity in students is much greater between the hours of 11:00am and 9:30pm than at other times of day.
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Making links outside study groups breeds success
Students who extend their learning beyond their internal study groups, are more successful than those who rely solely on established groupings.
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Moving STEM assessment beyond multiple choice
The OU won a 2017 Higher Education Academy Collaborative Teaching Award for the creation of STACK, an open-source mathematics assessment system.
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Bringing telescopes to students wherever they are
Another award-winning scholarship project, the OpenSTEM Labs, brings astronomy and space science to life for students whenever and wherever they are in the world.
Read the full storyMaking maths more accessible through sound
OU academics in Statistics in STEM working on statistics modules, looked at how graphs can be turned into sound to make them more accessible to maths students who are blind or visually impaired.
Assessing student learning with online analytics
STEM academics have built in online analytics to investigate student engagement with, and attitudes towards, the online interactive quizzes that form part of S217 Physics: from Classical to Quantum.
Quarterly Review of Research
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News & articles
Rethinking collective decision-making in the age of social media
In her inaugural lecture, on Thursday 21 November 2024, Anna De Liddo, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Director of Research at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, pointed out that the biggest problems of our time call for collective action.
- Living Roof project wins Open Societal Challenges funding for urban green roofing initiative 21st November 2024
- New research report looks at political understanding of young people in Wales 20th November 2024
- The UK government wants to shake up pensions – but it can’t guarantee that ‘megafunds’ will want to invest in Britain 20th November 2024
