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eSTEeM Projects

eSTEeM is providing a mechanism for professional development through practice-based scholarship within a mentored community. Much of our work is organised on a project basis with project management aimed at the delivery of new educational outcomes and scholarship outputs. 

eSTEeM supports a rolling portfolio of approx. 80 active scholarship projects under a number of themes which include:

  • Access, Participation and Success
  • Innovative assessment
  • Online/onscreen STEM practice
  • Supporting students
  • Technologies for STEM learning

To learn more about our projects, please click on the project titles or use the search feature below by entering keywords. To search by the name of a project leader, please use the 'Filter by Project Leader' tab on the right-hand side of this page.

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    Supporting student academic skills development - an evaluation of an English for Academic Purposes pilot

  1. Jo FayramJohn Woodthorpe

    2. Highly Commended at the 5th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2022.

    October 2019 to December 2021

    Improving and evaluating inclusivity in group project work for distance-learning engineering students

  2. Alice MoncasterHedieh Jazaeri

    3. Projects and teamwork are the predominant context in which most engineers work. Providing supported learning experience of such contexts supports employability for our students.

    April 2021 to February 2024

    SiSE only tutor groups and the effect on SiSE students and their tutors

  3. Laura AlexanderLinda MooreVictoria Nicholas

    4. Normally at the Open University Students in Secure Environments (SiSE) are allocated in small numbers to standard tutor groups to form mixed groups of 20 students, of whom 1 or 2 would typically be SiSE students.

    October 2019 to October 2020

    All change, but does tuition in cluster groups work?

  4. Helen Jefferis

    5. In recent years tutors have been asked to commit to a timetable of tutorials some time before the start of a module so that a full list of available tutorials can be provided to students as soon as they start their studies.

    October 2019 to September 2021

    An investigation into the breadth of learning objectives and skills developed in OpenSTEM Labs experiments

  5. Helen Lockett

    6. Highly Commended at the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2023.

    June 2020 to May 2022

    The value to students of drop-in tutorials to support assessment

  6. Maria Townsend

    7. Open University standard online tutorials are generally tutor-led with the tutor setting the agenda and content to be covered. Although they include both presentation and activities, some students are reluctant to actively participate.

    June 2020 to April 2022

    Evaluating the design of the virtual microscope with students

  7. Christothea Herodotou

    8. Existing studies about the design of the Virtual Microscope (VM) detail the technical specifications of the microscope such as improving the client response time when requesting an image and portability across computer platforms (Çatalyürek et al., 2003; Fereira et al., 1997) and report on develo

    April 2020 to December 2021

    Using Bitesize Videos to Enhance Students’ Experiences in a Level 2 Programming Module

  8. Soraya Kouadri MostéfaouiMark HallMarina Carter

    9. TT284 is a popular level 2 Web technologies module attracting over 1000 students in each presentation.

    April 2020 to November 2023

    Evaluation of D-flag students accessibility to and use of online tutorials and forums in L2 modules

  9. Sarah DaniellLorraine Waters

    10. It remains the case that despite different initiatives to encourage tutorial attendance, few students attend live online tutorials in LHCS.

    May 2020 to May 2024

    How successfully are students engaging with the Python component of SM123?

  10. Gemma Warriner

    11. SM123: Physics and Space is a Level 1 module aimed at preparing students to study physics, astronomy or planetary science at OU level 2. Most students are not new to the Open University and will have already studied S111: Questions in Science.

    April 2020 to October 2021

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