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
This project will take an intersectional approach and examine the student experience from the combined perspectives of BAME and disability as many students fall into more than one of these categories: in 2019 there were 10,543 students registered in STEM of which 1,246 were BAME and 2,079 were re
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
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
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
Dhouha Kbaier Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui Annemarie Kane
This report explores the broader impact of COVID-19 on the learning experiences and academic performance of ethnic minority students, using Open University (OU) Level 1 Computing modules as a case study.
October 2021 to September 2023
Vera Hale Clive Hilton Alessandra Campoli
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April 2022 to August 2024
Louise MacBrayne Zoë Chapman
Practical work in the form of home experiments has always formed an integral part of the science curriculum, in particular at level one. The move, however, from printed materials to online delivery has been accompanied by a change in the way students are supported in home experiments.
November 2022 to February 2025
