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

280 results found

Accessibility of Jupyter Notebooks on M269

Alexis Lansbury Sharon Dawes

When M269 (Algorithms, data structures and computability) was rewritten in 2021, all learning, practical work and assessment content was presented by means of Jupyter notebooks rather than having a mixture of theory on the VLE, two printed textbooks and practical work using an IDE.

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Evaluation and improvement of print packs use for Environmental Science students

Fiona Aiken Chris Hutton

Winner - eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2025.

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Investigating how to enhance the idea generation process by students for their T452 project

Having taught on project modules at HNC, HND and final UG level (T452), I have observed that the most intense tutor engagement is when discussing possible topics.

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Typical Support Seeking Behaviour of STEM Students, their Outcomes and Successes

Paul Collier Fiona Aiken

The importance of personal, non-academic support of students especially in a distance learning environment is well documented in the literature.

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Impact of introducing new practical and dataset project options to the science undergraduate capstone project module (S390)

Hannah Gauci Julie Robson Jon Golding Janette Wallace

S390 is the undergraduate science capstone project module.

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Engineering residential school or home experiments? A comparison from the perspective of both the student and the tutor

Alec Goodyear Iestyn Jowers Jan Kowal Carol Morris David Sharp

Residential schools are essential for accreditation of our engineering qualifications by Professional Engineering Institutions and they have had to be temporarily replaced by a set of practical engineering activities due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Black student experience and attainment on S112: improving a level 1 STEM module

Louise MacBrayne Jennie Bellamy

Highly Commended - eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2024.

Winner - Best Poster Competition, 12th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2023.

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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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Evaluating the Impact of Implementing Learning Design Approaches in STEM over 4 Years

Tom Olney

In 2016, the OU was restructured into four super-faculties (STEM, WELS, FASS & FBL). Amongst many other things, each faculty was tasked with developing structures, governance and procedures that would support module teams in designing teaching and learning appropriate to their context.

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Online peer mentoring at scale: Benefits and impacts from a student buddy perspective

Julie Robson Chris Hutton

The benefits of peer mentoring for students studying in Higher Education are well established and have been demonstrated in online, blended and hybrid settings. Best practice in establishing financially sustainable schemes in online settings at a large scale is under researched.

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