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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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    Evaluation of online journal club (OJC) in S285: to what extent does this help students develop employability skills?

  1. Lorraine WatersRachel McMullan

    2. Developing employability skills have been identified as an Open University priority; there is evidence that these transferable ‘soft’ skills are often limited in science graduates entering the workplace.

    May 2022 to June 2024

    What is known about how to write online exams and how to prepare students for them?

  2. Martin Braun

    3. When the Covid pandemic affected education, universities around the globe had to move not only their content delivery online, but also their assessments.

    April 2022 to December 2022

    The Use of Learning Analytics in STEM over 4 years

  3. Tom OlneyCarlton Wood

    4. 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

  4. Janet HaresnapeRuth GilbertHeather FraserHanne BownDavid RuizHannah Gandy

    5. 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

  5. Lisa Bowers

    6. 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

  6. Anne-Katrin Klehe

    7. 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?

  7. Joanna Sessford

    8. 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

    Postgraduate Project Management: evaluation of student employability skills development

  8. Kay BromleyJill ShawJoan Jackson

    9. M815 Project Management is part of the postgraduate computing programme and can also be studied by MSc students in Technology Management, Environmental Management, Engineering, Systems Thinking in Practice or Space Science and Open MSc/MA. This proposed scholarship project is motivated by tutors’

    December 2022 to September 2024

    Is the cost of home experiments a potential barrier to learning? Experiences from two level one science modules

  9. Louise MacBrayneZoë Chapman

    10. 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

    Improving retention through small interventions: The U101 postcard project

  10. Theodora PhilcoxElouise Huxor

    11. 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

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