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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Do OU students understand the Learning Outcomes on courses in general and in T176, T192, T193, T194 in particular?

Alan Yate

Anecdotal evidence from ALs tutoring on some Level 1 Engineering modules seems to show that students on Engineering modules do not fully engage with the Learning Outcomes (LOs).

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Blended tutorials in Mathematics: simultaneous F2F and online learning events

Andrew Potter Colin Blundell

A blended tutorial is a single learning event which gives students the opportunity of attending face-to-face or online.

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Teaching distributed computing using Raspberry Pi clusters at a distance

Daniel Gooch

A Parallel and distributed computing (PDC) is now considered a threshold concept for computing, and is embedded in computing curricula across the globe.

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Evaluating a new STEM AL induction programme

Hannah Gauci Janette Wallace

Highly Commended at the 5th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2022.

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Accessibility and inclusion in tuition (AccIT)

Rachel Slater Anne Campbell Elaine McPherson

The AccIT project has four main aims:

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Can a new OU Study App enhance the learning experience of students on S350, an online only module?

Simon Collinson Rachel McMullan Catherine Halliwell

In 2019 twenty-one modules volunteered to pilot a new OU Study App (The Open University, 2019); since January 2021 all module websites are available.

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Associate Lecturers’ Involvement in Improved Practice in a SXPS288 Labcast Delivery

Venetia Brown

Tutors who work in distance education often have less opportunities to participate in important, practical science experiences with colleagues.

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Pair Programming as a tool to enhance teaching and learning of programming at a distance

Adeola Adeliyi

Pair programming promotes immediate, informal collaboration over coding activities. The driving developer writes the code and controls the keyboard and mouse; the navigating developer checks the code as it is written by the driver, and the developers swap their roles frequently.

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Are virtual visits an effective way of engaging learners?

David Conway Christine Gardner Janet Hughes

​Winner of the 5th Best Poster Competition at the 9th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 29-30 April 2020.

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An investigation into the way Jupyter Notebooks enhance learning and teaching on TM351

Sharon Dawes Autumn Thomson

TM351 Data management and analysis has used Jupyter (2019) notebooks for practical work from its inception in 2016 and this project investigated how the notebooks supported students' learning.

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