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

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Understanding and improving students’ learning experience and engagement with practical science on-line: The case of virtual and remote microscopes

Christothea Herodotou

There is a need to better understand what works best for students who study practical science online in order to improve their overall learning experience.

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Investigating factors which affect active student participation during tutorials in online rooms

Diane Butler Lynda Cook Vikki Haley-Mirnar

Winner - Enhancing the Student Experience, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019.  

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SDK100 – what aspects of this online only module are the students engaging with?

Vikki Haley-Mirnar Carol Midgley

SDK100 Introduction to health sciences, an evidence-based approach (first presented in October 2015) is the Level 1 entry module for the Q71 BSc Health Sciences pathway. It was the first core module in Science to be delivered entirely online.

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Use of STACK to generate formative assessment for level 3 Pure mathematics

Hayley Ryder

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

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

Elaine Thomas Helen Jefferis Soraya 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.

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

Phil Wheeler Julia Cooke Kadmiel Maseyk Trevor 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.

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Gendered Choices - Motivation and degree choices of Computing and IT students: a gendered analysis

Clem Herman

This study investigates the gendered degree choices and motivations of Computing and IT students.

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Understanding on-line teaching practice: the importance of the observation

Chris Douce

This project captured and identified the practice of tutorial observations from two different perspectives: the perspective of the distance learning tutor, and the perspective of their manager or staff tutor.

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Leading the way as a hydro nation in Scotland – supporting student transitions within a strategic partnership between Glasgow Clyde College, The Open University in Scotland and Heriot-Watt University

Sally Crighton

As part of their commitment to building a Hydro Nation (Scottish Government, 2015), Scottish Water approached the Open University in Scotland (OUiS) with a request to establish a bridging qualification from an Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Water Operations from Glasgow Clyde College, a qua

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Framing Professional Competencies for Systems Thinking in Practice

Martin Reynolds

The eSTEeM project was a 12-month inquiry beginning March 2017 building on an initial eSTEeM project (2014-2016) entitled ‘Enhancing Systems Thinking in Practice in the Workplace’ reported on in Reynolds et al (2

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