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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Elouise Huxor Theodora Philcox Lisa Bowers
The Disability Champion project was a pilot programme to support ALs in their teaching of students in design with disability flags given that the proportion of students within this group has been steadily rising over recent years.
December 2020 to December 2022
Alexis Lansbury Sharon Dawes
When M269 (Algorithms, data structures and computability ) was rewritten in 2021, all learning, practical work and assessment content was presented by means of Jupyter notebooks rather than having a mixture of theory on the VLE, two printed textbooks and practical work using an IDE.
April 2021 to March 2025
Fiona Aiken Chris Hutton
Winner of the 8th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2025.
October 2021 to August 2024
Paul Collier Fiona Aiken
The importance of personal, non-academic support of students especially in a distance learning environment is well documented in the literature.
April 2021 to December 2024
Louise MacBrayne Jennie Bellamy
Highly Commended at the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2024.
Winner of the 8th Best Poster Competition at the 12th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 19-20 April 2023.
November 2020 to November 2023
Karen New Fiona Moorman
Assessment is at the core of teaching and learning at the Open University. It is used to measure student learning against institutional and AQA standards and, most importantly, assessment has a pivotal role in consolidating student understanding and in supporting progression along their learning
June 2021 to December 2023
Dhouha Kbaier Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui Annemarie Kane
This report explores the broader impact of COVID-19 on the learning experiences and academic performance of ethnic minority students, using Open University (OU) Level 1 Computing modules as a case study.
October 2021 to September 2023
Vera Hale Clive Hilton Alessandra Campoli
Issue:
April 2022 to August 2024
Diane Butler Andrew Potter Catherine Comfort Kristen Reid
Winner of the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2024.
April 2022 to December 2022
Diane Butler Andrew Potter
The development and implementation of the Inclusive Curriculum Tool (ICT) is one of a suite of measures the University is using to address issues around the degree awarding gaps which have been identified as priority areas in our Access and Participation Strategy (APS).
May 2022 to January 2025
