eSTEeM

Centre for Scholarship and Innovation

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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.

Search results

264 results found

Identifying tailored delivery routes for ALs to guide the use of Generative AI as a study support tool

Emma Steele Carol Calvert Alison Bromley

Issue to address

There is enormous potential for students to use GenAI as a support tool in their learning. Responsible and appropriate use of GenAI can positively impact student engagement and employability. 

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Helping IMD Q1 M&S students feel that they belong at the OU

Marianna Volpi

Members of communities whose aspirations have not traditionally included attending university may experience feelings of imposter syndrome, or a sense of being ‘out of place’ and not belonging to university when they commence their university career and indeed at points throughout their studies.

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Reimagining Higher Education Delivery Models within the Open University for Employer-Facing Engineering Education in the Digital Era (Phase 1 only)

Sarel Marais Gareth Neighbour Russ Lewis

How do rapid changes in the workplace challenge traditional pedagogy models in Higher Education (HE)? Does the current structure of higher education delivery remain relevant and responsive in the context of ongoing changes in the world of work?

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Creating a visual learning journey in S209: an accessible overview of key milestones in an undergraduate science module helping students to see links and stay motivated

Arabelle Bentley Iris Verhagen

The aim of this project is to design and implement a detailed visual, interactive map of the learning pathway in S209 (Earth Science) that students will be able to access for the duration of the module.  Not only will this map provide an accessible overview of the module content, it will als

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Overcoming the Barriers to Success in T452: Enabling Students (OBSTACLES)

Gareth Neighbour Andrea Patel

The Engineering degree’s capstone module, The Engineering Project (T452), is core to achieving compliance with UK-SPEC, achieving accreditation with the professional institutions, and as such shares many features with project modules elsewhere.  However, in the distance learning context, stu

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Students as partners to incorporate learning preferences and inclusivity into curriculum design and improve learning outcomes

Ruth Neal Ellen Marshall

This project aims to evaluate how current instructional methods on two statistics modules M140 (Introducing Statistics) and M248 (Analysing data) meet the learning needs and preferences of a diverse student population.

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Mitigating Generative AI Exploitation Through Isolated Practical Assessment: An Empirical Investigation of Assessment Integrity and Individual Learning Outcomes in Systems Penetration Testing and Cyber Security Education

Michael Bowkis Lee Campbell

This project uses a mixed methods approach to investigate whether curriculum innovation in assessment design can address the disruption caused by generative AI in practical computing education.

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Developing STEM public engagement through comedy

Chris Douce Judith Taylor

Communication and presentation skills is an important and essential element to doctoral training. The university help students to develop those skills by providing opportunities to enable students to share their work with others through events such as PhD student conferences.

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Evaluating the effectiveness and student experience of using plug-in tablets as part of robust online assessment

Becca Whitehead Gemma Warriner

Our assessment is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the use of Generative AI to answer questions, rather than the students themselves. We aim to investigate the possibility of online assessment via a verbal one-to-one discussion.

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AIDED: II (The AI Design Ed project #2)

Catherine Scott AnnMarie McKenna

This project looks to investigate the practicalities and implications of using GenAI as a participant in a creative problem-solving session, specifically as a member of a brainstorming team responding to a defined problem statement.

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