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.

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Challenges of assessment for a level 3 interdisciplinary module: an AL and student perspective

Jenny Duckworth Harriet Marshall

Student engagement and learning is strongly driven by assessment feedback. On the interdisciplinary module SDT306 (Environment: Responding to Change), tutors grade and provide feedback against learning outcomes (LOs) using a marking grid.

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Decolonising Computing: A Resource for Educators

Mustafa Ali

Decolonising the curriculum (DTC) is a university-wide initiative within the broader decolonising the university (DTU) project overseen by the EDI Dean with mandate from the VC. The current focus of DTC work in the STEM faculty is on Level 1 modules in all schools.

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Cultivating student led tutorials in STEM

Melanie Gregg Vivien Cleary

The objective of this small-scale study was to create a tutor free, active learning environment where students feel at ease to discuss and work on skill-based problems together.

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Improving student use of feedback on marked Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs)

Carol Calvert Clare Morris

The correspondence tuition that tutors provide, via the TMAs, is a key part of our teaching and support to students and represents a major investment of time and effort by tutors.

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Associate Lecturer Disability Champion scheme at the Open University (E&I-STEM)

Elouise Huxor Theodora Philcox Lisa Bowers

The Disability Champion project was a pilot programme to support ALs in their teaching of students in design with disability flags given that the proportion of students within this group has been steadily rising over recent years.

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

Karen New Fiona Moorman

Assessment is at the core of teaching and learning at the Open University.  It is used to measure student learning against institutional and AQA standards and, most importantly, assessment has a pivotal role in consolidating student understanding and in supporting progression along their lea

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Embedding research into teaching: practices, motivations and impacts

Sarah Davies

Academics are often interested in using their own research in their teaching – this can be a valuable way of sharing their passion for their subject, connecting students with cutting edge research knowledge, and enabling students to experience authentic science practices.

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Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on ethnic minority students’ study experience and awarding gap (A case study of Level 1 C&C Open University Modules)

Dhouha Kbaier Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui Annemarie Kane

This report explores the broader impact of COVID-19 on the learning experiences and academic performance of ethnic minority students, using Open University (OU) Level 1 Computing modules as a case study.

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

Martin Braun

At the Open University in the UK, final year engineering undergraduates are required to suggest a topic for their project.

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