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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Cathy Smith Charlotte Lighter
This report focusses on an in‐depth study of 12 students identified as ‘improvers’ in Mathematics Education modules.
December 2020 to September 2023
Chris Corcoran
The aim of this project was to look at processes and experiences that were either a barrier to students to joining the University or an enabler– another way of looking at this is what helped and what stopped students registering and joining their course.
October 2021 to January 2025
Mustafa Ali
Decolonising the curriculum (DTC) is a university-wide initiative within the broader decolonising the university (DTU) project overseen by the EDI Dean with mandate from the VC. The current focus of DTC work in the STEM faculty is on Level 1 modules in all schools.
June 2021 to February 2023
Elouise Huxor Theodora Philcox Lisa Bowers
The Disability Champion project was a pilot programme to support ALs in their teaching of students in design with disability flags given that the proportion of students within this group has been steadily rising over recent years.
December 2020 to December 2022
Alexis Lansbury Sharon Dawes
When M269 (Algorithms, data structures and computability ) was rewritten in 2021, all learning, practical work and assessment content was presented by means of Jupyter notebooks rather than having a mixture of theory on the VLE, two printed textbooks and practical work using an IDE.
April 2021 to March 2025
Fiona Aiken Chris Hutton
Winner of the 8th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2025.
October 2021 to August 2024
Paul Collier Fiona Aiken
The importance of personal, non-academic support of students especially in a distance learning environment is well documented in the literature.
April 2021 to December 2024
Hannah Gauci Julie Robson Jon Golding Janette Wallace
S390 is the undergraduate science capstone project module.
April 2021 to December 2024
Louise MacBrayne Jennie Bellamy
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
Karen New Fiona Moorman
Assessment is at the core of teaching and learning at the Open University. It is used to measure student learning against institutional and AQA standards and, most importantly, assessment has a pivotal role in consolidating student understanding and in supporting progression along their learning
June 2021 to December 2023
