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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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    Evaluating the Impact of Implementing Learning Design Approaches in STEM over 4 Years

  1. Tom Olney

    2. In 2016, the OU was restructured into four super-faculties (STEM, WELS, FASS & FBL). Amongst many other things, each faculty was tasked with developing structures, governance and procedures that would support module teams in designing teaching and learning appropriate to their context.

    April 2021 to March 2022

    Curriculum Development in Computing and Communications: Enabling the Student Voice, Facilitating Employability and Exploring Students’ Personal and Professional Aspirations

  2. Alexis LansburyArabella Nock

    3. This project will investigate whether our current C&C curriculum meets the personal and professional aspirations and employability needs of our students and identify curriculum-gaps from our students’ perspectives.

    April 2022 to October 2024

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

  3. Lorraine WatersRachel McMullan

    4. 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

    Which factors are correlated with undergraduate engineering distance learning students’ expectations of ethical issues?

  4. Joanna Sessford

    5. 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

    Recruiting tutors to specialist modules in the School of Computing and Communications at the Open University

  5. David McDade

    6. Highly Commended at the 8th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2025.

    November 2022 to October 2024

    Peer-learning activity for communicating algorithms in a Level 2 computer science module

  6. Ravi Rajani

    7. Peer learning is widely believed to address essential transferable skills such as teamworking, communication, and critical enquiry, that are not easily pursued by other means (Topping, 1998; Boud, Cohen and Sampson, 1999).

    May 2023 to July 2024

    Perceptions and Experiences of STEM Academic Promotion (Professorial): Case study from the Open University, UK

  7. Diane ButlerSoraya Kouadri MostéfaouiJimena GorfinkielMark McJury

    8. The study adopts a qualitative approach to determine academics’ experiences and perceptions of the Professorial Promotions process (PB1 only) within the Faculty of STEM, Open University.

    November 2022 to September 2024

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