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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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    SDK100 – what aspects of this online only module are the students engaging with?

  1. Vikki Haley-MirnarCarol Midgley

    2. SDK100 Introduction to health sciences, an evidence-based approach (first presented in October 2015) is the Level 1 entry module for the Q71 BSc Health Sciences pathway. It was the first core module in Science to be delivered entirely online.

    October 2016 to March 2021

    Use of STACK to generate formative assessment for level 3 Pure mathematics

  2. Hayley Ryder

    3. Highly Commended at the 3rd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2020 under the category - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

    October 2016 to November 2019

    Visualising the code: are students engaging with programming at level 1?

  3. Elaine ThomasHelen JefferisSoraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui

    4. This project Visualising the code: are students engaging with programming at Level 1? investigated the impact of using a visual programming environment on student engagement with programming.

    October 2015 to June 2019

    Assessing The ‘Open Field Lab’: Evaluating Interactive Fieldcasts for Enhancing Access to Fieldwork

  4. Phil WheelerJulia CookeKadmiel MaseykTrevor Collins

    5. Fieldwork is a fundamental part of the curriculum in undergraduate biological, environmental, Earth and geographical sciences, but not all students are able to participate in authentic field activities.

    October 2016 to December 2020

    Gendered Choices - Motivation and degree choices of Computing and IT students: a gendered analysis

  5. Clem Herman

    6. This study investigates the gendered degree choices and motivations of Computing and IT students.

    May 2016 to July 2019

    Understanding on-line teaching practice: the importance of the observation

  6. Chris Douce

    7. This project captured and identified the practice of tutorial observations from two different perspectives: the perspective of the distance learning tutor, and the perspective of their manager or staff tutor.

    January 2017 to July 2018

    Leading the way as a hydro nation in Scotland – supporting student transitions within a strategic partnership between Glasgow Clyde College, The Open University in Scotland and Heriot-Watt University

  7. Sally Crighton

    8. As part of their commitment to building a Hydro Nation (Scottish Government, 2015), Scottish Water approached the Open University in Scotland (OUiS) with a request to establish a bridging qualification from an Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Water Operations from Glasgow Clyde College, a qua

    October 2016 to October 2019

    Framing Professional Competencies for Systems Thinking in Practice

  8. Martin Reynolds

    9. The eSTEeM project was a 12-month inquiry beginning March 2017 building on an initial eSTEeM project (2014-2016) entitled ‘Enhancing Systems Thinking in Practice in the Workplace’ reported on in Reynolds et al (2

    May 2017 to June 2018

    A Flexible Start to M140

  9. Carol Calvert

    10. Winner of the 1st eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2018 under the category – Enhancing the Student Experience.

    May 2017 to August 2018

    Using peer observation within a Mathematics and Statistics community of practice in Scotland

  10. Sally Crighton

    11. This project stemmed from the first named author’s continuing interest in developing scholarship in a community of Open University (OU) Associate Lecturers (ALs) living in Scotland and teaching Mathematics & Statistics (M&S) modules.

    May 2017 to September 2019

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