The Open University - Evidence-informed Quality Improvement Programme (EQUIP)
This project was an evaluation of different sources of evidence available and how such data can be used (i) to better understand the student learning experience and (ii) to explore how it can drive student-focused personalised quality services/enhancement.
The drivers for change were: (i) responding to our audit recommendation that the University might "consistently analyse in greater depth the extensive management information it gathers and use it systematically to inform qualitative strategic analysis academic development and quality enhancement"; (ii) we needed to better understand the student experience particularly important in a distance learning setting; (iii) we needed to foster improved cross-unit working in a university which has separate units responsible for curriculum student support and the production of learning materials.
