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Oliver Howson

Oliver Howson

Senior Lecturer

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Latest publications

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  • Lade, S., Willis, A., Nylk, J. and Howson, O., 2026, ‘Domain-Adaptive Pre-training for Automated Short Answer Grading in Conceptual Physics: Reliability, Question-Level Analysis, and Error Reduction’, in Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026), 3-4 Jul 2026, San Diego, California, United States., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110742/.
  • Smith, C., Kathotia, V., Ward-Penny, R., Howson, O. and Wermelinger, M., 2023, ‘Mathematical and Data Literacy: Competencies and curriculum implications at the intersection of mathematics, data science, statistics and computing’, The Royal Society., https://oro.open.ac.uk/89425/.
  • Howson, O., 2023, ‘Leveraging Jupyter Notebooks in Assessment Development, Completion and Marking to Reduce Cognitive Load and Minimise Errors’, in I-HE2023: Proceedings of the Innovating Higher Education Conference, , 04-06 Oct 2023, Istanbul, Turkey., https://oro.open.ac.uk/94601/.
  • Howson, O., Charlton, P., Iniesto, F. and Holmes, W., 2022, ‘INSPIRE: Fourth Industrial Revolution Teaching in the Classroom’, in 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2-5 Mar 2022, Providence, Rhode Island, USA., https://oro.open.ac.uk/82465/.
  • Howson, O., Charlton, P., Iniesto, F. and Holmes, W., 2022, ‘INSPIRE: Fourth industrial revolution teaching in the classroom a multi-disciplinary collaboratively designed pilot project’, in 14th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 4-6 Jul 2022, Palma, Spain., https://oro.open.ac.uk/84931/.
  • Howson, O., 2022, ‘Virtually Learning’, ..Or Not? In: EDULEARN22 Proceedings, 4-6 Jul 2022, Palma, Spain., https://oro.open.ac.uk/83344/.
  • Howson, O., Adeliyi, A., Willis, A., Hirst, T., Charlton, P., Gooch, D., Rosewell, J., Richards, M., Wermelinger, M., Piwek, P., Savage, S., Lowndes, C., Thomas, E. and Smith, A., 2020, ‘Best Practices in using Technological Infrastructures’, The Institute of Coding., https://oro.open.ac.uk/80350/.
  • Howson, O., 2020, ‘An exploration of the impact of augmented and Virtual Reality within compulsory education’, in Daniela, Linda ed. New Perspectives on Virtual and Augmented Reality: Finding New Ways to Teach in a Transformed Learning Environment. Perspectives on Education in the Digital Age. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 95–110., https://oro.open.ac.uk/70990/.
  • Howson, O. and Gilardi, M., 2019, ‘Identifying the impact of using Augmented and Virtual Reality in educational contexts’, in Twenty-sixth International Conference on Learning, 24-26 Jul 2019, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom., https://oro.open.ac.uk/80356/.
  • Bowers, D. S. and Howson, O., 2019, ‘Analysis of accreditation approaches in the Computing sector’, The Open University, Milton Keynes., https://oro.open.ac.uk/69220/.
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