About I am a Research Associate in Learning Analytics at The Open University, currently on an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. My research focuses on addressing ethnic bias in educational materials ...

The Innovating Pedagogy 2024 report, produced by academics in The Open University's (OU) Institute of Educational Technology (IET) and researchers from the LIVE Learning Innovation Incubator at ...

Last week the House of Lords launched the Digitally Enhanced Blending Learning report. Evidence for the inquiry was gathered through three facilitated open discussion sessions with educators/academics ...

‘OU microcredential courses have an impact for learners… in terms of changes to their knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and practices, with learners able to describe new knowledge or skills, changed ...

The project, funded for a three-year period by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, has taken steps to identify methods that highlight patterns of students’ trajectories, to enable the ...

Laboratory experiences enable students to experiment with the material world, or data from it, using scientific tools, data collection equipment, models and theories. Remote labs are now available for ...

Our new Postgraduate Certificate in Online Teaching will hold its inaugural cohort in 2023, incorporating new practice and pedagogy designed and developed by pioneers in IET. The 60-credit ...

After initial development and trials in 2020-21, the virtual assistant chatbot, known as Taylor, has now been integrated within university systems to improve how disabled students provide information ...

In a drive to tackle some of today’s most significant societal challenges, The Open University (OU) has committed to focusing all of its research around three core pillars: sustainability, inequality ...

EdTech Ignite in IET IET is establishing EdTech Ignite, an online start-up incubator dedicated to technology-enhanced learning. We are open to EdTech projects that are ready for a wider market with ...

Newly established in 2022, the EdTech Ignite (formally EdTech Foundry) is taking the next step in progressing technology-enhanced learning in the mainstream. Open to EdTech projects ready to scale up ...

Every year academic researchers and educational technologists at the OU’s Institute of Educational Technology explore developing advancements in pedagogy and identify how they can be effective in ...