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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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    Can we reduce anxiety of students sitting remote exams? Sharing best practice between SPS and LHCS

  1. Gemma WarrinerFiona MoormanBecca Whitehead

    2. Winner of the 8th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2025.

    Our project was a cross school collaboration between the School of Physical Sciences (SPS) and the Life, Health and Chemical Sciences (LHCS).

    April 2022 to April 2024

    Evaluation of online journal club (OJC) in S285: to what extent does this help students develop employability skills?

  2. Lorraine WatersRachel McMullan

    3. Developing employability skills have been identified as an Open University priority; there is evidence that these transferable ‘soft’ skills are often limited in science graduates entering the workplace.

    May 2022 to June 2024

    What is known about how to write online exams and how to prepare students for them?

  3. Martin Braun

    4. When the Covid pandemic affected education, universities around the globe had to move not only their content delivery online, but also their assessments.

    April 2022 to December 2022

    The Use of Learning Analytics in STEM over 4 years

  4. Tom OlneyCarlton Wood

    5. Learning analytics is a rapidly expanding area of interest for many higher education institutions.

    May 2022 to August 2024

    Evaluating STEM/FBL APP Virtual Internship Scheme

  5. Diane ButlerAndrew PotterCatherine ComfortKristen Reid

    6. Winner of the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2024.

    April 2022 to December 2022

    Evaluating the use of an Inclusive Curriculum Tool in STEM modules

  6. Diane ButlerAndrew Potter

    7. This project evaluated the application of the Open University (OU) Inclusive Curriculum Tool (ICT), version 4, within a selection of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) modules.

    May 2022 to January 2025

    Enrichment workshops to enhance student engagement and employability

  7. Janet HaresnapeRuth GilbertHeather FraserHanne BownDavid RuizHannah Gandy

    8. 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

    Haptic thinking; identifying haptic tooling interventions for an online design course

  8. Lisa Bowers

    9. Highly Commended at the 1st eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2018 under the category – Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

    June 2015 to January 2018

    Building a sense of community in a core 2nd level Physics module (S217) and investigating qualitatively its effect on retention

  9. Anne-Katrin Klehe

    10. The OU has a broad intake of students from a very wide breadth of educational backgrounds. Most students study part time, mostly up to 60 credits per year while at the same time working full time, looking after a family and/or caring for someone.

    November 2022 to August 2024

    Which factors are correlated with undergraduate engineering distance learning students’ expectations of ethical issues?

  10. Joanna Sessford

    11. Ethics is becoming an increasingly important part of engineering curriculum. Engineers need to be able to recognise and make ethical decisions in their working life. This is essential for a number of different reasons including to avoid potentially life taking disasters. 

    November 2022 to February 2024

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