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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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    Personalised Student Support Plans: Examining the Effectiveness of Support Recommendations made by Students

  1. Cathryn Peoples

    2. The literature suggests that students want more from academic staff, from desiring to be treated with explicit respect [[i]] to being co-creators of their teaching and learning material [[ii]] [[iii]].

    June 2019 to January 2021

    Do OU students understand the Learning Outcomes on courses in general and in T176, T192, T193, T194 in particular?

  2. Alan Yate

    3. Anecdotal evidence from ALs tutoring on some Level 1 Engineering modules seems to show that students on Engineering modules do not fully engage with the Learning Outcomes (LOs).

    June 2019 to August 2021

    Blended tutorials in Mathematics: simultaneous F2F and online learning events

  3. Andrew PotterColin Blundell

    4. October 2019 to September 2021

    Teaching distributed computing using Raspberry Pi clusters at a distance

  4. Daniel Gooch

    5. A Parallel and distributed computing (PDC) is now considered a threshold concept for computing, and is embedded in computing curricula across the globe.

    October 2019 to December 2022

    Evaluating a new STEM AL induction programme

  5. Hannah GauciJanette Wallace

    6. Highly Commended at the 5th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2022.

    October 2019 to July 2021

    Accessibility and inclusion in tuition (AccIT)

  6. Rachel SlaterAnne CampbellElaine McPherson

    7. The AccIT project has four main aims:

    January 2020 to September 2023

    Can a new OU Study App enhance the learning experience of students on S350, an online only module?

  7. Simon CollinsonRachel McMullanCatherine Halliwell

    8. In 2019 twenty-one modules volunteered to pilot a new OU Study App (The Open University, 2019); since January 2021 all module websites are available.

    October 2019 to April 2021

    Associate Lecturers’ Involvement in Improved Practice in a SXPS288 Labcast Delivery

  8. Venetia Brown

    9. Tutors who work in distance education often have less opportunities to participate in important, practical science experiences with colleagues.

    October 2019 to December 2021

    Pair Programming as a tool to enhance teaching and learning of programming at a distance

  9. Adeola Adeliyi

    10. Pair programming promotes immediate, informal collaboration over coding activities. The driving developer writes the code and controls the keyboard and mouse; the navigating developer checks the code as it is written by the driver, and the developers swap their roles frequently.

    October 2019 to May 2023

    Are virtual visits an effective way of engaging learners?

  10. David ConwayChristine GardnerJanet Hughes

    11. ​Winner of the 5th Best Poster Competition at the 9th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 29-30 April 2020.

    December 2019 to November 2021

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