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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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    The Use of Learning Analytics in STEM over 4 years

  1. Tom OlneyCarlton Wood

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

    May 2022 to August 2024

    Enrichment workshops to enhance student engagement and employability

  2. Janet HaresnapeRuth GilbertHeather FraserHanne BownDavid Ruiz

    3. 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

  3. Lisa Bowers

    4. 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

  4. Anne-Katrin Klehe

    5. 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?

  5. Joanna Sessford

    6. 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

    Improving retention through small interventions: The U101 postcard project

  6. Theodora PhilcoxElouise Huxor

    7. 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

    How should formative assessments be assessed? A study of S217 online quizzes

  7. Jonathan NylkAndy Diament

    8. The aim of this project is to evaluate the level of student engagement with the online quizzes on S217 Physics: from Classical to Quantum, comparing the current model of assessment with a formative thresholded assessment model which has been shown to have a marked positive impact on stud

    November 2022 to August 2023

    Recruiting tutors to specialist modules in the School of Computing and Communications at the Open University

  8. David McDade

    9. Within the School of Computing and Communications (C&C), recent updates to the curriculum have highlighted issues around 'skills gaps' within the school and the impact this is having on tutor recruitment.

    November 2022 to October 2024

    Team Based Learning tutorials in S248

  9. Kate NixonNick Chatterton

    10. This project seeks to improve student engagement in tutorials in S248 Chemistry in life: food, water and medicines.

    November 2022 to September 2024

    Peer-learning activity for communicating algorithms in a Level 2 computer science module

  10. Ravi Rajani

    11. Peer learning is widely believed to address essential transferable skills such as teamworking, communication, and critical enquiry, that are not easily pursued by other means (Topping, 1998; Boud, Cohen and Sampson, 1999).

    May 2023 to July 2024

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