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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Maria Townsend
Open University standard online tutorials are generally tutor-led with the tutor setting the agenda and content to be covered. Although they include both presentation and activities, some students are reluctant to actively participate.
June 2020 to April 2022
Carol Calvert Rachel Hilliam
Students taking qualifications mainly in science, economics and data sciences are now the majority of the students on a second-year undergraduate statistics course.
March 2020 to November 2021
Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui Mark Hall Marina Carter
TT284 is a popular level 2 Web technologies module attracting over 1000 students in each presentation.
April 2020 to November 2023
Mark Jones Helen Fraser
Astronomy is a subject area with broad appeal, being a topic of interest both for students intending to specialise in astrophysics and for those who simply wish to know more about our place in the Universe.
June 2020 to December 2021
Gemma Warriner
SM123: Physics and Space is a Level 1 module aimed at preparing students to study physics, astronomy or planetary science at OU level 2. Most students are not new to the Open University and will have already studied S111: Questions in Science.
April 2020 to October 2021
Autumn Thomson Marina Carter
At the Open University (OU) we are still learning about the best way to support our apprentice learners in their academic study. Degree Apprentices are learners in full time employment with study funded through the apprenticeship levy and other government sources.
April 2020 to December 2021
Abi Kirk
In OU STEM online tutorials, speech by students is seen to be rare. Evidence of this is provided by a sequence of studies, starting from the early days of online tutorials. However, students do speak in online individual support sessions (ISS).
August 2021 to October 2023
Cathryn Peoples
According to the social constructivist model of learning, social opportunities are considered to be important in an educational experience for their positive influence. The principle is that the learning can be reinforced through the interaction with others.
August 2020 to March 2022
Andrew Potter Delyth Tomos Chris Hughes
Welsh-medium education has attracted increased attention over the past 50 years. Much research has been conducted in secondary and higher education contexts, including the teaching and learning of mathematics in Welsh.
November 2020 to December 2022
Fadlalla Elfadaly
Predicting the passing probabilities of an online module has always been an interest in higher education. It helps in planning, decision making, providing feedback to students and also in helping students work around any difficulties or milestones that are predicted to affect their results.
November 2020 to December 2022
