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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Jotham Gaudoin
M348 (Applied Statistical Modelling) is a new module in applied statistics that will involve developing skills in the R software package via the use of Jupyter notebooks. It is a compulsory module for students on several qualifications and these students have a range of different backgrounds.
April 2022 to July 2023
Victoria Nicholas Paul Collier
Students frequently cite time pressure as a challenge to successful study.
August 2022 to June 2025
Victoria Pearson Linda Moore Maria Velasco
In every presentation of S111, there has been a percentage of students who remain registered until the end of the module but have had limited or even no engagement with the module content and assessment. In some cases, they may have never logged on to the VLE at all despite attempts from ALs and
April 2022 to December 2024
James Warren Georgy Holden
We think that we know our students, but do we fully understand their hopes the reality of their daily lives?
April 2022 to June 2023
Sarah Davies
Ecoanxiety – the distress related to climate and ecological crises – is increasingly recognised in learners by educators (Hickman et al , 2021), in the media (e.g., BBC Ideas 2021, Rannard, 2022) as well as through programmes of advice and education (e.g., Wright, 2022).
November 2022 to April 2024
Ruth Neal Kellee Patterson
The aim of this project is to assess the impact on M140 of introducing group work, gain feedback from students and tutors and learn from this experience before rolling this out to all students.
May 2023 to September 2024
Cath Brown Sue Pawley
Due to the increasing popularity of the Data Science degree, MST224, Mathematical methods , student numbers have increased significantly. This has resulted in the employment of significant numbers of Associate Lecturers (ALs), and we would like to use the resultant increase in tutorial ti
May 2023 to November 2024
Victoria Brown Cath Brown
Student retention and continuation are key drivers for this project.
May 2023 to May 2025
Adam Freeman Anne-Katrin Klehe
Great effort and time is spent by Associate Lecturers (ALs) on delivering tutorials. Uptake of tutorials in all modules is low. This investigation will concentrate on the experience of students on S217, a second level physics module.
May 2023 to September 2025
Amaninder Singh
Within many OU Computing modules and microcredentials, vendor certification content is partially integrated, or the modules are created solely based on the vendor qualifications (e.g., Cisco, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Education & Development Group (OpenEDG), EC-Council, Microsoft etc).
October 2023 to September 2025
