Enhancing scholarship at the Open University

18th May 2017

We are delighted to announce a number of new additions to the eSTEeM project portfolio. Following the 10th call for strategic innovation and scholarship projects in December 2016, eSTEeM received a whopping 21 proposals from colleagues across the STEM Faculty and beyond.

Carol Morris and Sally Organ project poster Once again the quality of submissions was extremely high with projects ranging from investigations into the learning journeys of students between levels, to evaluating the effectiveness of onscreen notetaking tools.

Diane Butler, eSTEeM Deputy Director commented "we were delighted to see so many fascinating project proposals from members of the Faculty. It is a real testament to the interest shown in the scholarship of teaching and learning across STEM and we look forward very much to working with our new project teams as they start work."

For more details please see the links below.

Carol Calvert, Early start M140

Sally Crighton, Using peer observation within a Mathematics and Statistics community of practice in Scotland

Janet Haresnape, Skills progression in practical science within the Life Sciences

Clem Herman, Evaluation of a community partnership approach using open educational resources: Equate Scotland and the Returning to STEM BOC

Rachel Hilliam and Alison Bromley, Supporting the student’s learning journey through the transition of mathematics and statistics from level 2 to level 3

Rob Janes, Elaine Moore, Elizabeth FitzGerald and Jo Iacovides, Utilising the Teaching Tricky Topic process to Identify and Address Student Misunderstandings across Three OU Modules

Hilary MacQueen, Factors affecting student success in the workplace

Carol Morris and Sally Organ, Engineering qualifications at the OU – what motivates women to study?

Ale Okada, Anna De Liddo and Andrea Berardi, VISION - Visual Interfaces for Systematising and Interpreting Online Notes

Sue Pawley and Chris Hughes, Supporting MST224 students with bridging material during their transition from level one mathematics

Steven Self and Mark Slaymaker, Refining a framework for measuring qualification effects