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    Enrichment workshops to enhance student engagement and employability

  1. Janet HaresnapeRuth GilbertHeather FraserHanne BownDavid Ruiz

    2. The aim of this project was to evaluate the programme of enrichment workshops which had been offered to biology and health sciences students in the School of Life, Health and Chemical sciences at the Open University during the summer months in 2022 and 2023.  The aims of the enrichment workshops

    June 2022 to October 2024

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

  2. Sally Crighton

    3. This project stemmed from the first named author’s continuing interest in developing scholarship in a community of Open University (OU) Associate Lecturers (ALs) living in Scotland and teaching Mathematics & Statistics (M&S) modules.

    May 2017 to September 2019

    Black student experience and attainment on S112: improving a level 1 STEM module

  3. Louise MacBrayneJennie Bellamy

    4. Highly Commended at the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2024.

    Winner of the 8th Best Poster Competition at the 12th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 19-20 April 2023.

    November 2020 to November 2023

    Disproved predictions of at-risk students: Some students fail despite doing well, others succeed despite predicted as at-risk

  4. Martin Hlosta

    5. Most of the research around the identification of at-risk students and the prediction of their performance using Machine Learning focuses on developing the most accurate model.

    April 2019 to October 2020

    Early start MU123

  5. Carol CalvertLuay Salman

    6. A flexible start programme was introduced in July- September 2018 for the MU123 18J presentation. There was a high take up from students with just under 200 students participating, which was 43% of those offered a place, and this meant that the programme was full to capacity.

    July 2018 to May 2020

    Investigating the motivations of female students choosing an open versus named qualification

  6. Elaine McPhersonMary Keys

    7. UK universities (including the OU) have continued to struggle to recruit women to certain subjects within STEM despite best efforts to address this gender imbalance. In 2017, the OU introduced a ‘BSc (Hons) Combined STEM’ degree (R28) alongside its single and joint honours degrees in STEM.

    June 2020 to December 2022

    Are You Ready for Your Studies - Are we Assessing Students Readiness? An evaluation of the usefulness of the Level 2 ARFY quizzes

  7. Soraya Kouadri MostéfaouiOli Howson

    8. The aim of this project is to investigate the success of using the diagnostic AYRF ('Are You Ready For') quizzes and their role in preparing undergraduate students for their level 2 modules (TT284 (Web technologies) M269 (Algorithms, data structures & computability) and M250

    November 2019 to September 2024

    Gender Differences in completion and credit obtained in Level 2 study in Physical Sciences

  8. Pam Budd

    9. ​Winner of the 2nd Best Poster Competition at the 6th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 25-26 April 2017.

    December 2014 to February 2018

    Summer Series of Journal Clubs: an opportunity to develop employability skills and a sense of community amongst students in secure environments

  9. Karen NewFiona MoormanHannah Gauci

    10. In keeping with the ethos ‘open to all’, The Open University (OU) has provided higher education opportunities to students in secure environments (SiSE) for over 40 years, currently reaching over 150 secure environments (Open University, 2020).

    June 2019 to January 2021

    Skills progression in practical science within the Life Sciences

  10. Janet Haresnape

    11. Employability is an increasingly important concern in contemporary Higher Education (HE).

    May 2017 to March 2022

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