Latest updates from The Open University.
OU Analyse has won a 2025 OU Recognition of Excellence in Teaching (RET) Award for its work on the Student Facing Dashboard (SFD), demonstrating the valuable support that technology can provide for teaching and learning.
The OU Analyse team has won the prestigious MK STEM Award 2025 in the AI Impact category. This accolade celebrates the team’s innovative use of artificial intelligence to transform education and promote equitable learning opportunities.
In thanks and recognition for revolutionising teaching practices through the Early Alert Indicators Dashboard (OU Analyse), empowering tutors with predictive analytics to enhance student success, inclusivity and setting a new standard in data-driven educational support
The Open University was Highly commended at the HESPA awards in the Data Story Category for our work supporting online teachers to help students succeed.
The OUAnalyse has been successful in the highly competitive Fairness Innovation Challenge delivered by the UK’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and Innovate UK.
The OU Analyse team has been awarded the prestigious Educational Dataset Prize by the Educational Data Mining Society for their remarkable work with the OULAD dataset.
Award received in April 2023 for the eSTEeM project “Understanding the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic attainment gap at the OU by means of quantitative and qualitative data analytics” at the 12th annual eSTEeM Conference.
Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor of The Open University, explains the importance of using the OUAnalyse (Early Alert Indicators) dashboard and how it can enhance ALs current practice to target interventions proactively to support students especially those who may be struggling (OU intranet).
OU Analyse, the OU’s Predictive Learning Analytics system, was selected as a finalist and among the four best projects for the 2020 edition of the
September 2020 – winners of the DataIQ 2020 Awards in Best use of data by a not-for-profit organisation.
April 2020 – OUAnalyse awarded Recognition of Excellence in Teaching at the OU.
for Outstanding Impact on Teaching, Curriculum and Students.
5 September 2019 – OU Analyse was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Awards 2019 in the category Technological or Digital Innovation of the Year.
26 January 2016 – OU Analyse mentioned as the UK’s only significant headway in Predictive Analytics
28 July 2015 – OU Analyse was featured on the BBC News website.
24 July 2015 – Predicting at-risk students at the Open University was part of the weekend article in The Financial Times.
30 July 2015 – Times Higher Education mentioned OU Analyse in their weekly overview in academia.
