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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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    Accessibility of Jupyter Notebooks on M269

  1. Alexis LansburySharon Dawes

    2. 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

    Evaluation and improvement of print packs use for Environmental Science students

  2. Fiona AikenChris Hutton

    3. Winner of the 8th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2025.

    October 2021 to August 2024

    Typical Support Seeking Behaviour of STEM Students, their Outcomes and Successes

  3. Paul CollierFiona Aiken

    4. 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

    Black student experience and attainment on S112: improving a level 1 STEM module

  4. Louise MacBrayneJennie Bellamy

    5. 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

    An evaluation of use and impact of zero grades in assessment; are we being consistent, fair, and transparent?

  5. Karen NewFiona Moorman

    6. 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

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

  6. Tom Olney

    7. 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

    Online peer mentoring at scale: Benefits and impacts from a student buddy perspective

  7. Julie RobsonChris Hutton

    8. The benefits of peer mentoring for students studying in Higher Education are well established and have been demonstrated in online, blended and hybrid settings. Best practice in establishing financially sustainable schemes in online settings at a large scale is under researched.

    July 2019 to August 2023

    Embedding research into teaching: practices, motivations and impacts

  8. Sarah Davies

    9. Academics are often interested in using their own research in their teaching – this can be a valuable way of sharing their passion for their subject, connecting students with cutting edge research knowledge, and enabling students to experience authentic science practices.

    November 2021 to June 2024

    Early Start for TM470 project students

  9. Christine Gardner

    10. Students on the IT/computing named degree have a compulsory project to complete at the end of their studies (TM470), yet for some this is a major challenge due to the independent nature of the research, with relatively little taught content in the module.

    October 2021 to May 2024

    Pair marking: Working together to improve our teaching

  10. Nigel GibsonKate Sim

    11. This project aims to investigate using dynamically shared marking documents to support new tutors. In the process it will also provide this group some additional mentoring, and it allow experienced tutors to reflect on their own work and to share and develop good practice.

    October 2021 to June 2023

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