Co-INSPIRE

Collaborative analysis of a qualitative interview dataset between OU staff and students

Contact: Anne Kagoya
Partners: OU Students and Staff

Three students studying a Master's in Education by distance learning collaborated with three OU staff to design and completed a study of student's views on how studying the Master's affects their views and practice of assessment through understandings of agency and identity.

Currere Cymru

Contact: Alison Glover
Partner: Co-creation with teachers

A project working with other HEIs in Wales and school practitioners to explore how curriculum theorising can help support teachers’ engagement with, and understanding of the curriculum.

Incorporating Sustainability into Masters study: A student-staff collaboration

Contact: Alison Fox
Partner: Co-creation with students

Students on a Masters module were invited to contribute to and co-analyse data from peers on the impact of studying a model of Sustainability in the Curriculum in their practice contexts. This led to an international conference presentation, a book chapter and student-content-led social media campaigns linked to the University's sustainable events.

Assessment, Identity and Agency in Masters study by Teaching Practitioners

Contact: Alison Fox
Partner: Co-creation with students

This was a student-led project which conducted research between Master's students, central academics and associate lecturers by students, leading to a webinar for the Master's in Education cohort and an online dataset for SAGE illustrating the co-design and collaborative analysis.

New collaborations to support children’s learning and wellbeing

Contact: Alison Buckler and Freda Wolfenden
Partner: The Learning Generation Initiative (formerly The Education Commission)

The Open University’s Centre for the Study of Global Development and the Learning Generation Initiative’s Education Workforce Initiative (EWI) have been collaborating on a series of initiatives focusing on education workforce research and reform. We have been exploring what we call ‘learning teams’: how different actors work with teachers in new ways to support children’s learning, with an emphasis on collaboration and partnerships. 

Connecting Communities and Heritages for Climate Action: Art for Action

Contact: Alison Fox 
Partner: Highland One World (United Kingdom); African Alliance YMCA (Kenya); University of Ibadan (Nigeria)

This is a partnership between third sector and higher education organisations across Nigeria, Kenya and Scotland who are supporting climate activism by young people through arts-based methods for campaigning. Increasingly young people are being invited into co-leadership spaces within the project. 

The Connect Project

Contact: Ale Okada
Partner: Connect Consortium

Led by The Open University, the CONNECT initiative is a project aiming to support secondary schools to adopt open schooling, integrating science-action in the core-curriculum and using participatory-science with families, universities and enterprises.

3MPower

Contact: Tom Power 
Partner: Institute of Education and Research, Dhaka University

3MPower is a research collaboration between The Open University and the Institute of Education and Research at Dhaka University, working in partnership with the Government of Bangladesh and teachers in rural communities and schools. The research explores how e-learning solutions are working on the ground for teachers and learners in marginalised communities.

I-GATE

Contact: Tom Power
Partner: World Vision Zimbabwe, Care International, SNV, World Bicycle Relief, Emthonjeni Women’s Forum, Union for the Development of the Apostolic Church (Zimbabwe), Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (Zimbabwe)

In collaboration with the government of Zimbabwe, IGATE-T sought to improve the life chances of over 70,000 marginalised girls by supporting their learning and helping them to transition from primary education to post-primary options.

Taking your training online

Contact: Rebecca Jones
Partner: International Planned Parenthood Federation, Frontline AIDS, Internews, Women’s Refugee Commission

Online course to support trainers who want to take their training online co-designed and co-authored with NGOs working on sexual and reproductive health and rights.