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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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    Teaching distributed computing using Raspberry Pi clusters at a distance

  1. Daniel Gooch

    2. A Parallel and distributed computing (PDC) is now considered a threshold concept for computing, and is embedded in computing curricula across the globe.

    October 2019 to December 2022

    Learning behaviours and successful outcomes in STEM students

  2. Elizabeth EllisAlice Gallagher

    3. Since 2016 the Learning Innovation team has been engaged in a series of research activities designed to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying study habits and learning behaviour of OU students, in order to inform the future development of pedagogy, systems, tools and platforms. Potential

    October 2019 to December 2020

    Evaluating a new STEM AL induction programme

  3. Hannah GauciJanette Wallace

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

    October 2019 to July 2021

    Accessibility and inclusion in tuition (AccIT)

  4. Rachel SlaterAnne CampbellElaine McPherson

    5. The AccIT project has four main aims:

    January 2020 to September 2023

    Can a new OU Study App enhance the learning experience of students on S350, an online only module?

  5. Simon CollinsonRachel McMullanCatherine Halliwell

    6. In 2019 twenty-one modules volunteered to pilot a new OU Study App (The Open University, 2019); since January 2021 all module websites are available.

    October 2019 to April 2021

    Associate Lecturers’ Involvement in Improved Practice in a SXPS288 Labcast Delivery

  6. Venetia Brown

    7. Tutors who work in distance education often have less opportunities to participate in important, practical science experiences with colleagues.

    October 2019 to December 2021

    Pair Programming as a tool to enhance teaching and learning of programming at a distance

  7. Adeola Adeliyi

    8. Pair programming promotes immediate, informal collaboration over coding activities. The driving developer writes the code and controls the keyboard and mouse; the navigating developer checks the code as it is written by the driver, and the developers swap their roles frequently.

    October 2019 to May 2023

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

  8. Sharon DawesAutumn Thomson

    9. 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

  9. Janet HughesAnn Walshe

    10. 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

  10. Soraya Kouadri MostéfaouiOli Howson

    11. 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

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