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 the perceived benefits to computing students of remote pair programming

Janet Hughes Ann Walshe

Winner of the 5th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2022.

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Are You Ready for Your Studies - Are we Assessing Students Readiness? An evaluation of the usefulness of the Level 2 ARFY quizzes

Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui Oli Howson

The aim of this project is to investigate the success of using the diagnostic AYRF ('Are You Ready For') quizzes and their role in preparing undergraduate students for their level 2 modules (TT284 (Web technologies) M269 (Algorithms, data structures & computability) and M250

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Measuring the Impact of Learning Design and Course Creation (LDCC) Workshops

Tom Olney

Highly Commended at the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2024.

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Supporting student academic skills development - an evaluation of an English for Academic Purposes pilot

Jo Fayram John Woodthorpe

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

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Improving and evaluating inclusivity in group project work for distance-learning engineering students

Alice Moncaster Hedieh Jazaeri

Projects and teamwork are the predominant context in which most engineers work. Providing supported learning experience of such contexts supports employability for our students.

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SiSE only tutor groups and the effect on SiSE students and their tutors

Laura Alexander Linda Moore Victoria Nicholas

Normally at the Open University Students in Secure Environments (SiSE) are allocated in small numbers to standard tutor groups to form mixed groups of 20 students, of whom 1 or 2 would typically be SiSE students.

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All change, but does tuition in cluster groups work?

Helen Jefferis

In recent years tutors have been asked to commit to a timetable of tutorials some time before the start of a module so that a full list of available tutorials can be provided to students as soon as they start their studies.

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Investigating the motivations of female students choosing an open versus named qualification

Elaine McPherson Mary Keys

UK universities (including the OU) have continued to struggle to recruit women to certain subjects within STEM despite best efforts to address this gender imbalance. In 2017, the OU introduced a ‘BSc (Hons) Combined STEM’ degree (R28) alongside its single and joint honours degrees in STEM.

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An investigation into the breadth of learning objectives and skills developed in OpenSTEM Labs experiments

Helen Lockett

Highly Commended at the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2023.

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The value to students of drop-in tutorials to support assessment

Maria Townsend

Open University standard online tutorials are generally tutor-led with the tutor setting the agenda and content to be covered. Although they include both presentation and activities, some students are reluctant to actively participate.

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