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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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    Investigating factors which affect active student participation during tutorials in online rooms

  1. Diane ButlerLynda CookVikki Haley-Mirnar

    2. Winner of the 2nd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2019 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

    April 2016 to September 2018

    Leading the way as a hydro nation in Scotland – supporting student transitions within a strategic partnership between Glasgow Clyde College, The Open University in Scotland and Heriot-Watt University

  2. Sally Crighton

    3. As part of their commitment to building a Hydro Nation (Scottish Government, 2015), Scottish Water approached the Open University in Scotland (OUiS) with a request to establish a bridging qualification from an Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Water Operations from Glasgow Clyde College, a qua

    October 2016 to October 2019

    A Flexible Start to M140

  3. Carol Calvert

    4. Winner of the 1st eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2018 under the category – Enhancing the Student Experience.

    May 2017 to August 2018

    Supporting MST224 students with bridging material during their transition from level one mathematics

  4. Sue PawleyChris Hughes

    5. Using funding from eSTEeM, we have created an interactive website and series of online tutorials under the umbrella of Revise and Refresh (R&R) for MST224: Mathematical methods.

    May 2017 to November 2018

    Utilising the Teaching Tricky Topic process to Identify and Address Student Misunderstandings across Three OU Modules

  5. Elizabeth FitzGeraldRob JanesElaine MooreJo Iacovides

    6. In summary, this project aimed to create shared understandings of disciplinary misconceptions (Tricky Topics) in particular modules, and to create new ways of overcoming those misconceptions.

    May 2017 to January 2019

    Towards A Structured Process for Involving ALs in Module Tuition Strategy Design and Review

  6. Ann Walshe

    7. Following the introduction of the Group Tuition Policy (GTP) in 2016, Associate Lecturers (ALs) were given the opportunity in 2017 to feed back into a review of the newly created module tuition strategies. In the STEM Faculty a Toolkit was provided to support the review.

    May 2017 to January 2019

    Use of OULive recordings of `live mathematics’ and discussion forums on a level 3 Pure mathematics module in order to enable students to move to a growth mindset in maths and to add a social dimension to learning mathematics

  7. Hayley RyderTacey O'Neil

    8. There is much research regarding students who struggle mathematically early (school, Y1 UG) but not for good students who `hit a wall’ at level 3. Some persevere while others drop-out.

    October 2017 to January 2025

    Wisdom from Groups

  8. Simon Bell

    9. The project themes can be set out in short hand as follows: Online group work. How we get better at it, the need to do more, providing students with experience, innovation in method and reaching out by means of a story set out in a graphic novel.

    October 2017 to March 2019

    Active learning in synchronous online tuition: increasing student interaction

  9. Katrine Rogers

    10. Highly Commended at the 3rd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2020 under the category – Enhancing the Student Experience.

    September 2017 to July 2019

    Analytics for tracking student engagement

  10. Christine Gardner

    11. Although there has been much research in the area of data analytics in recent years (e.g. Shum and Ferguson 2012), there are questions regarding which analytic methodologies can be most effective in informing higher education teaching and learning practices (Gibson and de Freitas, 2016).

    October 2017 to February 2021

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