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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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    Understanding and mitigating students difficulties in undertaking complex practical activities on their computers

  1. Patrick Wong

    2. Hands-on practical activities can improve students understanding of technological concepts and provide an opportunity to improve their technical skills.

    November 2018 to September 2020

    Supporting students in online tuition from Access through the student journey

  2. Carlton WoodLynda Cook

    3. Within many STEM modules we have moved to an online platform for learning events, including tuition.  Whilst there are many benefits to online tuition by both tutors and students (such as remote access) anecdotal evidence suggests that STEM OU students do not actively participate in online tuitio

    November 2018 to June 2023

    Evaluating the accessibility of an alternative format of module materials in Maths & Stats

  3. Chris Hughes

    4. Winner of the 3rd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2020 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

    January 2019 to February 2020

    Associate Lecturer Reflections on Student Perceptions of Usefulness of Level 1 Service Mathematics

  4. Andrew PotterGerry Golding

    5. Investigations into students’ attitudes toward mathematics learning is well documented in the literature. The student’s perception of the usefulness of his/her mathematical studies to his/her chosen degree pathway can affect retention rates, as well as progression in later STEM study.

    May 2019 to December 2021

    Student co-design of confidence-building formative assessment for Level 1 Computing & IT students

  5. Paul PiwekSimon Savage

    6. Winner of the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2023.

    June 2019 to June 2022

    Floodplain Meadows Partnership Ambassadors

  6. Emma Rothero

    7. We have previously undertaken simple questionnaires to gain feedback about the training, but we would like to develop this further and in-more depth to answer the following questions:

    May 2019 to February 2025

    STEM ISSS - where are we now? Evaluating awareness, usage and effectiveness of individual student support sessions

  7. Fiona MoormanKaren New

    8. Our distance learning students study in isolation and are an increasingly diverse cohort, many with disabilities and balancing work, family and caring commitments alongside study workload, with many students opting to study at high intensity with potential overlap between J and B presentations.

    May 2019 to December 2021

    Evaluating student perspectives of different types of learning events provided on SDK228, a level 2 LHCS module

  8. Janette Wallace

    9. SDK228, Science of the mind: Investigating mental health was a level two interdisciplinary Life, Health and Chemical Science (LHCS) module that attracted students from a variety of backgrounds including health and natural sciences, health and social care, nursing, psychology and counselling.

    April 2019 to October 2021

    Summer Series of Journal Clubs: an opportunity to develop employability skills and a sense of community amongst students in secure environments

  9. Karen NewFiona MoormanHannah Gauci

    10. In keeping with the ethos ‘open to all’, The Open University (OU) has provided higher education opportunities to students in secure environments (SiSE) for over 40 years, currently reaching over 150 secure environments (Open University, 2020).

    June 2019 to January 2021

    Evaluating the level 1 engineering tutors resource

  10. Anne-Marie GallenClare Reger

    11. Reusability is a key concept for educators. For many of the associate lectures at the Open University, the group tuition policy has resulted in repetition of tutorial structure and delivery with ALs across clusters giving similar tutorials on the same topics at similar times.

    March 2019 to October 2019

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