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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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    Understanding the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic attainment gap at the OU by means of quantitative and qualitative data analytics

  1. Miriam FernandezMartin HlostaTracie Farrell

    2. Highly Commended at the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2023.

    November 2020 to August 2022

    Understanding factors influencing BAME students’ achievements within Engineering and Innovation

  2. Carol MorrisRachel Slater

    3. Students from BAME groups appear to perform less well than their white counterparts across all modules in E&I.

    October 2021 to December 2024

    Evaluating the increase in student wellbeing brought about by informal online sessions and computer generated worked examples on a level 3 pure maths module

  3. Hayley RyderTacey O'Neil

    4. Issue: student well-being and anxiety. Accessibility of tutorial type resources.

    Many students experiencing problems with abstract mathematics either already experience maths anxiety or develop it. They can also lack self-efficacy and mathematical resilience.

    November 2020 to January 2025

    Effective support for reflective writing: learning from improvers

  4. Cathy SmithCharlotte Lighter

    5. This report focusses on an in‐depth study of 12 students identified as ‘improvers’ in Mathematics Education modules.

    December 2020 to September 2023

    Barriers and enablers to higher education: the experiences of disabled students from minority cultural backgrounds

  5. Chris Corcoran

    6. This project will take an intersectional approach and examine the student experience from the combined perspectives of BAME and disability as many students fall into more than one of these categories: in 2019 there were 10,543 students registered in STEM of which 1,246 were BAME and 2,079 were re

    October 2021 to January 2025

    Decolonising Computing: A Resource for Educators

  6. Mustafa Ali

    7. Decolonising the curriculum (DTC) is a university-wide initiative within the broader decolonising the university (DTU) project overseen by the EDI Dean with mandate from the VC. The current focus of DTC work in the STEM faculty is on Level 1 modules in all schools.

    June 2021 to February 2023

    Associate Lecturer Disability Champion scheme at the Open University (E&I-STEM)

  7. Elouise HuxorTheodora PhilcoxLisa Bowers

    8. 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

    Accessibility of Jupyter Notebooks on M269

  8. Alexis LansburySharon Dawes

    9. 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

  9. Fiona AikenChris Hutton

    10. There is a legal requirement to provide students who have declared disabilities with reasonable adjustments which address their learning needs. An Advance HE report on this (Falsinger & Bryford, 2010) includes ‘resources available’ as a reasonable adjustment to address.

    October 2021 to August 2024

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

  10. Paul CollierFiona Aiken

    11. 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

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