Technologies for STEM learning

An investigation into the breadth of learning objectives and skills developed in OpenSTEM Labs experiments

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

An investigation into the way Jupyter Notebooks enhance learning and teaching on TM351

TM351 Data management and analysis has used Jupyter (2019) notebooks for practical work from its inception in 2016 and this project investigated how the notebooks supported students' learning.

Pair Programming as a tool to enhance teaching and learning of programming at a distance

Pair programming promotes immediate, informal collaboration over coding activities. The driving developer writes the code and controls the keyboard and mouse; the navigating developer checks the code as it is written by the driver, and the developers swap their roles frequently.

Associate Lecturers’ Involvement in Improved Practice in a SXPS288 Labcast Delivery

Tutors who work in distance education often have less opportunities to participate in important, practical science experiences with colleagues.

Teaching distributed computing using Raspberry Pi clusters at a distance

A Parallel and distributed computing (PDC) is now considered a threshold concept for computing, and is embedded in computing curricula across the globe.

Blended tutorials in Mathematics: simultaneous F2F and online learning events

Using technology-enabled learning networks to drive module improvements in STEM

This project provides one way to answer the need to close the feedback loop between OU tutors and campus-based teams, to develop a joint understanding of teaching and learning design challenges, and to put tutors as close as possible to the development of solutions.

Use of augmented reality in a second level human biology module: benefits and challenges

• This project explored the use of a vision-based augmented reality (AR) application (Heart App), which has been developed by the Open University, specifically for a second level Human Biology module (SK299). 

Developing programming problem-solving skills using individualised screencasts

Winner of the 4th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2021 under the category - Innovative Approach to Teaching.

Visual Interactive Learning of Engineering Concepts

The project developed a visual interactive learning method to help engineering student to understand basic concepts. Many engineering concepts explain the relationships between various parameters.