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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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    A Flexible Start to M140

  1. Carol Calvert

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

    May 2017 to August 2018

    Using peer observation within a Mathematics and Statistics community of practice in Scotland

  2. Sally Crighton

    3. This project stemmed from the first named author’s continuing interest in developing scholarship in a community of Open University (OU) Associate Lecturers (ALs) living in Scotland and teaching Mathematics & Statistics (M&S) modules.

    May 2017 to September 2019

    Skills progression in practical science within the Life Sciences

  3. Janet Haresnape

    4. Employability is an increasingly important concern in contemporary Higher Education (HE).

    May 2017 to March 2022

    Evaluation of a community partnership approach using open educational resources: Equate Scotland and the Returning to STEM BOC

  4. Clem Herman

    5. According to research, an estimated 1 in 9 mothers, or 54,000 women every year, report being forced out of jobs following maternity leave and those that are coming back after maternity breaks or after a break, required support and interventions to help them with on-ramping (EHRC 2016; Greer, 2013

    May 2017 to August 2019

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

  5. Sue PawleyChris Hughes

    6. 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

  6. Elizabeth FitzGeraldRob JanesElaine MooreJo Iacovides

    7. 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

    Factors affecting student success in the workplace

  7. Hilary MacQueen

      8. May 2017 to September 2019

      Engineering qualifications at the OU – what motivates women to study?

    • Carol MorrisSally Organ

      • Winner of the 3rd Best Poster Competition at the 7th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 25-26 April 2018.

      May 2017 to October 2019

      VISION - Visual Interfaces for Systematising and Interpreting Online Notes

    • Ale OkadaAnna De LiddoAndrea Berardi

      • Understanding students’ preferences and habits about digital reading is fundamental to support paperless learning.

      May 2017 to February 2021

      Sonification partial pilot on M140

    • Karen VinesChris Hughes

      • Sonifications are audio representations of graphs, and as such are an ‘alternative format’ which could be used to improve accessibility of module materials.

      May 2017 to April 2018

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