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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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    The impact of technology on the teaching and assessment of ‘systems diagrams’

  1. Andy Lane

    2. Diagramming is a creative process where the context and tools used to create the diagram may hinder or help students in learning both how to create diagrams that represent a situation and how to learn about diagramming and the situation.

    June 2015 to January 2016

    Academic literacy and communicating assessment to students on L1 Science Modules

  2. Claire KoteckiPrithvi Shrestha

    3. This project aimed to understand assessment and how it is communicated to students in Level 1 Science with application across STEM subjects.

    June 2015 to August 2019

    Breaking the coding barrier: transition from Level 1 to Level 2 programming

  3. Frances Chetwynd

    4. In this research we have investigated the use of a visual-based programming language at HE Stage 1 for beginner programmers.

    June 2015 to July 2018

    Are we making progress? Progression through learners’ interaction in OpenStudio across a qualification

  4. Nicole Lotz

    5. The project set out to better understand how learners in the Design and Innovation Qualification at the Open University progress in OpenStudio as they move through their qualification.

    June 2015 to October 2017

    Sonification of depictions of numerical data

  5. Karen VinesChris Hughes

    6. Winner of the 1st eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2018 under the category – Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

    July 2015 to December 2016

    Gathering student perception about online/distance practical science at level 2

  6. Victoria Nicholas

    7. We describe findings from a study based upon a collaborative project carried out online as the end of module assessment activity of a multidisciplinary science module at the UK Open University.

    July 2015 to February 2021

    Assessment analytics of student engagement with, and performance on, S217 online quizzes

  7. Andrew Norton

    8. This project used analytics information to investigate student engagement with, and attitudes towards, the online interactive quizzes that form part of S217 Physics: from Classical to Quantum.  

    January 2016 to August 2016

    Implementation of lessons learnt from students who succeed “despite the odds”

  8. Carol Calvert

    9. Focusing on what makes for study success is not a new research pursuit – retrospective examination of factors contributing to study success generally reveal that students who do well have a predictable social, cultural, educational and cognitive profile which places them well to succeed.

    January 2016 to June 2017

    Online Chemistry Support Clinics

  9. Nick ChattertonElaine Moore

    10. The “Chemistry Clinics”, now re-named as “Getting Ready for….”, were initially designed to enhance retention and progression in the second-year chemistry module, S215.

    January 2016 to January 2020

    Measuring qualification effects of a new pedagogy which embeds learning and assessment activities within each student’s rich professional context of practice

  10. Lucia Rapanotti

    11. We report on the outcomes of an eSTEeM project focused on a pedagogical approach implemented in three post-graduate modules for a recently introduced Computing qualification (F66 MSc in Computing), where the students’ own professional context of practice, rather than fictitious case studies, is u

    January 2016 to May 2017

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