You are here

  1. Home
  2. eSTEeM Projects
  3. Technologies for STEM learning

Technologies for STEM learning

Development and evaluation of a software tool for automated Java specification marking

  • Anton Dil

    • Highly Commended at the 2nd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019 under the category - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

    October 2017 to October 2018

    Assessing The ‘Open Field Lab’: Evaluating Interactive Fieldcasts for Enhancing Access to Fieldwork

  • Phil WheelerJulia CookeKadmiel MaseykTrevor Collins

    • Fieldwork is a fundamental part of the curriculum in undergraduate biological, environmental, Earth and geographical sciences, but not all students are able to participate in authentic field activities.

    October 2016 to December 2020

    Visualising the code: are students engaging with programming at level 1?

  • Elaine ThomasHelen JefferisSoraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui

    • This project Visualising the code: are students engaging with programming at Level 1? investigated the impact of using a visual programming environment on student engagement with programming.

    October 2015 to June 2019

    Haptic thinking; identifying haptic tooling interventions for an online design course

  • Lisa Bowers

    • Highly Commended at the 1st eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2018 under the category – Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

    June 2015 to January 2018

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

  • Nicole Lotz

    • 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

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

  • Andy Lane

    • 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

    Using OpenStudio in STEM learning

  • Elaine ThomasLeonor BarrocaHelen DonelanKaren Kear

    • Winner of the 2nd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2019 under the category - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

    October 2014 to December 2018

    Evaluation of The OpenScience Lab’s 3D Virtual Skiddaw application

  • Shailey MinochaTom ArglesSteve Tilling

    • In this project1, we had the following research objectives towards investigating the pedagogical advantages of virtual field trips (VTFs) and the challenges for their adoption:

    October 2014 to October 2019

    The use of smart phones to enhance teaching in environmental engineering and environmental science modules

  • Suresh NesaratnamShahram Taherzadeh

    • This study considered the availability of smart phone environmental apps that could be used in the teaching of environmental engineering and environmental science. Several apps in the field of noise, water and air were found to be freely available on the Internet.

    December 2013 to September 2014

    Understanding the challenges of learning to program at level 2

  • Chris Douce

    • Learning to program is a skill that some students struggle with.  TT284, Web Technologies, requires students to write code using a number of different programming languages: Javascript, PHP and Google AppInventor. Many students who take TT284 would have completed TU100, My Digital Li

    December 2013 to October 2015

    Page 3 of 4