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...education institutes. For example, at The Open University, each faculty has a dedicated scholarship centre, and staff apply for funding on a bi-annual basis to conduct scholarship activities, often focusing on pressing emergent issues. SoTL is defined as ‘educators moving beyond reflection upon their teaching strategies to an intentional, rigorous and systematic inquiry...

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...Open University campus in Milton Keynes, through the financial support of the Royal Society, and attended by 13 UK research scientists with an interest in these topics. A good deal of the material that we used to deliver this ‘pilot version’ of the course is here on this site and so freely available to all other interested parties – other scientists, policy-makers,...

...Open University's Professional Doctorates (EdD/DHSC) When undertaking a Professional Doctorate, such as the EdD or the DHSC, successful candidates write a thesis which makes an original contribution to knowledge. These degrees are usually undertaken part-time by mid- to late-career professionals who write a thesis that contributes towards both theory and professional...