eSTEeM

Centre for Scholarship and Innovation

Karen New

Projects

Exploring student perception of laboratory workbooks: authentic learning or missed opportunity?

Karen New Lorraine Waters Sarah Daniell

Accurate record keeping is an important employability skill that students need to develop in any scientific discipline.

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An evaluation of use and impact of zero grades in assessment; are we being consistent, fair, and transparent?

Karen New Fiona Moorman

Project context

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Summer Series of Journal Clubs: an opportunity to develop employability skills and a sense of community amongst students in secure environments

Karen New Fiona Moorman Hannah Gauci

In keeping with the ethos ‘open to all’, The Open University (OU) has provided higher education opportunities to students in secure environments (SiSE) for over 40 years, currently reaching over 150 secure environments (Open University, 2020).

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Online journal clubs in distance higher education: an opportunity to develop skills and community?

Fiona Moorman Karen New

Winner - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2020.

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

Karen New

  • 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). 
  • Through multiple methodologies, including web survey, questionnaire
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