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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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    An investigation into the way Jupyter Notebooks enhance learning and teaching on TM351

  1. Sharon DawesAutumn Thomson

    2. TM351 Data management and analysis has used Jupyter (2019) notebooks for practical work from its inception in 2016 and this project investigated how the notebooks supported students' learning.

    October 2019 to June 2022

    Investigating the perceived benefits to computing students of remote pair programming

  2. Janet HughesAnn Walshe

    3. Winner of the 5th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2022.

    October 2019 to October 2021

    Are You Ready for Your Studies - Are we Assessing Students Readiness? An evaluation of the usefulness of the Level 2 ARFY quizzes

  3. Soraya Kouadri MostéfaouiOli Howson

    4. The aim of this project is to investigate the success of using the diagnostic AYRF ('Are You Ready For') quizzes and their role in preparing undergraduate students for their level 2 modules (TT284 (Web technologies) M269 (Algorithms, data structures & computability) and M250

    November 2019 to September 2024

    Measuring the Impact of Learning Design and Course Creation (LDCC) Workshops

  4. Tom Olney

    5. Highly Commended at the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2024.

    October 2019 to January 2024

    Supporting student academic skills development - an evaluation of an English for Academic Purposes pilot

  5. Jo FayramJohn Woodthorpe

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

    October 2019 to December 2021

    Improving and evaluating inclusivity in group project work for distance-learning engineering students

  6. Alice MoncasterHedieh Jazaeri

    7. Projects and teamwork are the predominant context in which most engineers work. Providing supported learning experience of such contexts supports employability for our students.

    April 2021 to February 2024

    SiSE only tutor groups and the effect on SiSE students and their tutors

  7. Laura AlexanderLinda MooreVictoria Nicholas

    8. Normally at the Open University Students in Secure Environments (SiSE) are allocated in small numbers to standard tutor groups to form mixed groups of 20 students, of whom 1 or 2 would typically be SiSE students.

    October 2019 to October 2020

    All change, but does tuition in cluster groups work?

  8. Helen Jefferis

    9. In recent years tutors have been asked to commit to a timetable of tutorials some time before the start of a module so that a full list of available tutorials can be provided to students as soon as they start their studies.

    October 2019 to September 2021

    Investigating the motivations of female students choosing an open versus named qualification

  9. Elaine McPhersonMary Keys

    10. UK universities (including the OU) have continued to struggle to recruit women to certain subjects within STEM despite best efforts to address this gender imbalance. In 2017, the OU introduced a ‘BSc (Hons) Combined STEM’ degree (R28) alongside its single and joint honours degrees in STEM.

    June 2020 to December 2022

    An investigation into the breadth of learning objectives and skills developed in OpenSTEM Labs experiments

  10. Helen Lockett

    11. Highly Commended at the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2023.

    June 2020 to May 2022

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