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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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    Career Development for STEM professionals

  1. Clem Herman

    2. The overall aim of this project was to develop a sustainable framework for supporting students into STEM employment, focusing on careers advice and professional development for those who are seeking to enter, return to or progress their careers in this sector.

    April 2011 to February 2013

    Understanding different perspectives of postgraduate education in the international arena

  2. Leonor Barroca

    3. This project was set up to investigate the short term opportunities in international markets (focus on Portugal and Brazil) for the OU’s postgraduate offerings in ICT & Computing (with a focus on software engineering).

    April 2011 to June 2012

    Geospatial technologies in distance learning and teaching in Science

  3. Tom ArglesSarah Davies

    4. Geospatial technologies (that underpin services such as Google Earth™, ArcGIS™, remote sensing and GPS) can be used to help students grasp difficult or threshold concepts, such as 3D visualisation, and improve their spatial thinking skills, or ‘spatial literacy’.

    April 2011 to November 2014

    The use of peer assessment/review in distance teaching via the Moodle VLE

  4. Peter Taylor

    5. This project undertook an investigation of the use of peer assessment in distance teaching. After reviewing evidence from within and outside the institution a number of pilot studies were undertaken. The Workshop tool in the Moodle VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) was evaluated.

    April 2011 to September 2014

    ArguEd Argumentation Education

  5. Paul Piwek

    6. This project investigated the use of the argument mapping technique for helping Computing and Technology students with developing their argument analysis skills. The focus was on scaffolding of these skills through interactive computer-marked assessment.

    June 2011 to March 2014

    Transforming retention and progression in a new Level 1 course

  6. Chris Dobbyn

    7. This project was set up to evaluate the effectiveness of the models of assessment devised for the new Level 1 course, TU100: My Digital Life. Assessments and tutor guides based on novel models had been prepared by a small group of staff, including the investigators.

    June 2011 to May 2014

    Infinite Bandwidth Zero Latency - IBZL2

  7. Steve Walker

    8. IBZL is a thought experiment. It starts from the question: what if bandwidth (and latency) in networks like the internet didn't matter any more? What would become possible?

    April 2011 to February 2012

    iChart - Interactive Exploration of Data Charts

  8. Michel Wermelinger

    9. Data charts are used in many magazines, newspapers and official reports. Data journalism is on the rise. Big data is a familiar buzz word. And yet the public in general often does not have an easy way to explore the data and statistics that are thrown at them to justify a particular argument.

    April 2011 to July 2013

    Online practical work for science and engineering students

  9. Mark Endean

    10. This short scoping project aimed to assess the feasibility of and, ideally, shape a longer‐term programme of collaborative working between the Faculties of Science and MCT, and East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai, China.

    April 2011 to August 2012

    Assessing 'alternative media' elements: is there a generic model?

  10. Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui

    11. Nowadays, new digital technologies provide educators with increasingly diverse opportunities for assessing students’ understanding through media other than conventional text – for example web pages, videos, posters, PowerPoint presentations, podcasts and graphics, all of which can be submitted el

    April 2011 to January 2013

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