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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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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Investigating students perception of some of the key learning activities in T272

Foroogh Hosseinzadeh Anne-Marie Gallen Helen Lockett Rafael Hidalgo Maxim Lamirande

The purpose of this research is to engage with Stage 2 engineering students, studying T272 Core Engineering B module, about different modes of online activities and how effective these are in engaging, informing, and reinforcing their learning.

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Exploring a Peer Support Structure for Jupyter Notebooks and R on M348 (Applied Statistical Modelling)

Jotham Gaudoin

M348 (Applied Statistical Modelling) is a new module in applied statistics that will involve developing skills in the R software package via the use of Jupyter notebooks. It is a compulsory module for students on several qualifications and these students have a range of different backgrounds

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Understanding the postgraduate research student experience in a culture of collaborative leadership

Ann Grand

How leaders choose to lead inevitably has impacts on those who follow them. From the beginning of AstrobiologyOU, its directors have aspired to lead the group collaboratively.

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Writing retreats for level 1 students

Victoria Nicholas Paul Collier

Students frequently cite time pressure as a challenge to successful study.

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Understanding Passive Withdrawals on S111

Victoria Pearson Linda Moore Maria Velasco

In every presentation of S111, there has been a percentage of students who remain registered until the end of the module but have had limited or even no engagement with the module content and assessment.  In some cases, they may have never logged on to the VLE at all despite attempts from AL

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Postcard Confessions: Deepening Understanding of Students via their Hopes and Dreams

James Warren Georgy Holden

We think that we know our students, but do we fully understand their hopes the reality of their daily lives?

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Can we reduce anxiety of students sitting remote exams? Sharing best practice between SPS and LHCS

Gemma Warriner Fiona Moorman Becca Whitehead

Winner of the 8th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2025.

Our project was a cross school collaboration between the School of Physical Sciences (SPS) and the Life, Health and Chemical Sciences (LHCS).

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What is known about how to write online exams and how to prepare students for them?

Martin Braun

When the Covid pandemic affected education, universities around the globe had to move not only their content delivery online, but also their assessments.

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Enrichment workshops to enhance student engagement and employability

Janet Haresnape Ruth Gilbert Heather Fraser Hanne Bown David Ruiz Hannah Gandy

The aim of this project was to evaluate the programme of enrichment workshops which had been offered to biology and health sciences students in the School of Life, Health and Chemical sciences at the Open University during the summer months in 2022 and 2023.  The aims of the enrichment works

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