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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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    Investigating students perception of some of the key learning activities in T272

  1. Foroogh HosseinzadehAnne-Marie GallenHelen LockettRafael HidalgoMaxim Lamirande

    2. The purpose of this research is to engage with Stage 2 engineering students, studying T272 Core Engineering B module, about different modes of online activities and how effective these are in engaging, informing, and reinforcing their learning.

    May 2021 to March 2023

    Exploring a Peer Support Structure for Jupyter Notebooks and R on M348 (Applied Statistical Modelling)

  2. Jotham Gaudoin

    3. M348 (Applied Statistical Modelling) is a new module in applied statistics that will involve developing skills in the R software package via the use of Jupyter notebooks. It is a compulsory module for students on several qualifications and these students have a range of different backgrounds.

    April 2022 to July 2023

    Understanding the postgraduate research student experience in a culture of collaborative leadership

  3. Ann Grand

    4. How leaders choose to lead inevitably has impacts on those who follow them. From the beginning of AstrobiologyOU, its directors have aspired to lead the group collaboratively.

    April 2022 to April 2023

    Writing retreats for level 1 students

  4. Victoria NicholasPaul Collier

    5. Students frequently cite time pressure as a challenge to successful study.

    August 2022 to June 2025

    Understanding Passive Withdrawals on S111

  5. Victoria PearsonLinda MooreMaria Velasco

    6. 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 2023

    Postcard Confessions: Deepening Understanding of Students via their Hopes and Dreams

  6. James WarrenGeorgy Holden

    7. 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

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

  7. Gemma WarrinerFiona MoormanBecca Whitehead

    8. 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

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

  8. Martin Braun

    9. 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

    Enrichment workshops to enhance student engagement and employability

  9. Janet HaresnapeRuth GilbertHeather FraserHanne BownDavid Ruiz

    10. 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

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

  10. Anne-Katrin Klehe

    11. 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

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