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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Victoria Pearson Linda Moore Maria Velasco
In every presentation of S111, there has been a percentage of students who remain registered until the end of the module but have had limited or even no engagement with the module content and assessment. In some cases, they may have never logged on to the VLE at all despite attempts from ALs and
April 2022 to December 2024
James Warren Georgy Holden
We think that we know our students, but do we fully understand their hopes the reality of their daily lives?
April 2022 to June 2023
Gemma Warriner Fiona Moorman Becca Whitehead
Our project was a cross school collaboration between the School of Physical Sciences (SPS) and the Life, Health and Chemical Sciences (LHCS).
Rationale for our approach
April 2022 to April 2024
Martin Braun
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
Janet Haresnape Ruth Gilbert Heather Fraser Hanne Bown David Ruiz
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
Anne-Katrin Klehe
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
Theodora Philcox Elouise Huxor
This project aims to improve student retention on U101, Design thinking . U101 is a gateway Level 1 design module and part of Q61 in Engineering and Innovation (E&I).
November 2022 to December 2024
Sarah Davies
Ecoanxiety – the distress related to climate and ecological crises – is increasingly recognised in learners by educators (Hickman et al , 2021), in the media (e.g., BBC Ideas 2021, Rannard, 2022) as well as through programmes of advice and education (e.g., Wright, 2022).
November 2022 to April 2024
Kate Nixon Nick Chatterton
This project seeks to improve student engagement in tutorials in S248 Chemistry in life: food, water and medicines .
November 2022 to September 2024
Ruth Neal Kellee Patterson
The aim of this project is to assess the impact on M140 of introducing group work, gain feedback from students and tutors and learn from this experience before rolling this out to all students.
May 2023 to September 2024
