The 14th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2025: Innovations in Impact

Dates: 

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 10:00 to Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 15:45

Location

Via MS Teams

Contact

eSTEeM

Titled Innovations in Impact, this year’s event will be an online conference with a difference. We challenged presenters to find innovative and engaging methods of disseminating their scholarship practice and to think outside of the box of the traditional 20-minute PowerPoint presentation. Therefore, the programme has been designed to be an engaging and immersive experience for delegates with more room for discussion and debate. It will also incorporate regular breaks to allow participants time away from their screens.

The programme contains of mixture of interactive sessions, lightning teaching innovation talks and poster presentations. The programme also includes a wellbeing session, SoTL speed dating and craft sessions, so there is something for everyone!

We will be presenting the annual eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year awards, which will celebrate excellence in eSTEeM projects over the past year. Conference delegates will also be invited to vote for the best poster presentation and the most engaging and immersive session for day one and day two.

Registration has now closed; however, if you would like to attend then please contact us esteem@open.ac.uk.

This event is open to all OU colleagues. To join the conference, please visit the eSTEeM & Co website to find the links you'll need for each session. Please note that you will need to sign-in using your OU credentials to access the website.

We look forward to welcoming you on the 30th April - 1st May.

@OU_eSTEeM #eSTEeMConf25

PowerPoint Presentations

Day One

Parallel Session A

Chris Corcoran - Barriers and enablers to higher education: the experiences of disabled students from minority cultural backgrounds

Parallel Session C

Janette Wallace, Lucy Anderson, Sarah Daniell and Trevor Collins - Using virtual reality tutorials with Stage 3 Health Sciences students

Parallel Session H

Dhouha Kbaier and Andrew Mason - Enhancing Online STEM Education Through AI-Driven Anomaly Detection in Remote Laboratories

Teaching Innovation Talks

Jon Golding - The Mystery disease – A whodunnit approach to learning

Jenny Duckworth and Sarah Davies - Exploring hidden worlds: soil invertebrates through a virtual lens

Daniel Gooch and Mark Hall - Duck-supported debugging

Parallel Session M

Elouise Huxor and Theodora Philcox - Combating isolation one postcard at a time...

Day Two

Parallel Session P

Alice Fraser-McDonald, Sally Jordan, David Sharp and Teresa Sides - Exploring factors influencing progression from taught study to postgraduate research at the OU

Paralell Session W

Jenny Duckworth, Harriet Marshall and Jennie Bellamy - Does sharing slides in advance of online learning events impact student attendance?

Poster Presentations

Visit our YouTube Channel to view the recorded poster presentations.

Related resources: 

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Final programme for the 2025 event.

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Book of abstracts and conference details