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Ms Claire Maguire

Profile summary

  • Regional Academic Staff
  • Senior Lecturer and Head of Student Experience Business School
  • The Faculty of Business & Law
  • The Open University Business School
  • Undergraduate & Professional Development
  • claire.maguire

Professional biography

Professional Interests

Claire Maguire joined the Open University in January 2018 as a Lecturer and Student Experience Manager in the Business School. Claire was then promoted to Senior Lecturer in Business and Management at the OU and now holds the office of Head of Student Experience in Business.

Claire is recognised as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, holds an MSc Employee Relations & HR, Level 7 Executive Coaching and BA (Hons) History & Economics degree. Claire has recently been recognised by the Chartered Association of Business Schools as a Certified Management and Business Educator.

Research interests

Claire is active in scholarship and research looking into the effective use of technology in education to support both Tutors and students.  Claire is working currently on Generative AI and Student Assessments and how this translates into the practical support for tutors and students in the business school. Claires first scholarship researched the impact of machine learning and the use of Predictive Analytics. The Faculty of Business and Law has been a main adopter of this technology to support the retention and progression of their students.  Claires work is influencing pedagogic practice across the Open University and the wider HE sector.

Teaching Interests

Claire has worked on Microcredentials and Short Courses as a Learning Advisor.

Claire is an APPLAUD Mentor, mentoring colleagues for the FHEA and SFHEA of the Higher Education Academy

As an Executive Coach Claire has worked with many clients to enable them to fulfil their potential and worked as a Career Coach on the Cranfield MBA.

Publications

The engagement of university teachers with predictive learning analytics (2021-11)
Herodotou, Christothea; Maguire, Claire; McDowell, Nicola D.; Hlosta, Martin and Boroowa, Avinash
Computers & Education, 173, Article 104285

Prescriptive analytics motivating distance learning student action: A case study of a student-facing dashboard (2025-03)
Herodotou, Christothea; Carr, Jessica; Shrestha, Sagun; Comfort, Catherine; Bayer, Vaclav; Maguire, Claire; Lee, John; Mulholland, Paul and Fernandez, Miriam
In : LAK25: The 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK 2025) (03-07 Mar 2025, Dublin, Ireland) (pp. 306-316)

Creating inclusive environments for students with dyslexia studying online in higher education (2024)
Rhoden, Maureen; Maguire, Claire; Gallagher, Clora; Tahera, Khadija and Mathur, Sahil
In : Innovating Higher Education Conference 2024 (23-25 Oct 2024, The Open University of Cyprus, Limassol, Cyprus)

Predictive Learning Analytics and University Teachers: Usage and perceptions three years post implementation (2023-03-13)
Herodotou, Christothea; Maguire, Claire; Hlosta, Martin and Mulholland, Paul
In : 13th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK 2023) (13-17 Mar 2023, Arlington, Texas) (pp. 68-78)

Championing success at The Open University (OU): How the Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) Module Champions are harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support tutors and students (2025-01-27)
McDowell, Nicola and Maguire, Claire
Scholarship Centre for innovation in online Legal and Business education (SCiLAB), The Open University

Championing success at The Open University:How the Faculty of Business and Law Module Champions are harnessing AI to support tutors and students (2025)
Maguire, Claire
The Open University Scholarship Centre for Innovation in online Legal and Business

Does Co tutoring improve online teaching practice? (2025)
Maguire, Claire
The Open University Scholarship Centre for Innovation in online Legal and Business

Developing robust assessment in the light of Generative AI developments (2024-07)
Hardie, Liz; Lowe, Jonquil; Pride, Mychelle; Waugh, Kevin; Hauck, Mirjam; Ryan, Francine; Gooch, Daniel; Patent, Volker; McCartney, Kieran; Maguire, Claire; Richards, Mike and Richardson, Heather
NCFE; The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

PVC-Challenges Response: A student facing dashboard for online undergraduate students (2023-12)
Herodotou, Christothea; Shrestha, Sagun; Comfort, Catherine; Fernandez, Miriam; Andrews, Heshan; Mulholland, Paul; Bayer, Vaclav; Maguire, Claire and Lee, John
Quality Enhancement and Innovation, The Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

How would you use time travel?
Maguire, Claire
The Open University Law School