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.

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Evaluation of The OpenScience Lab’s 3D Virtual Skiddaw application

Shailey Minocha Tom Argles Steve Tilling

In this project1, we had the following research objectives towards investigating the pedagogical advantages of virtual field trips (VTFs) and the challenges for their adoption:

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Using OpenStudio in STEM learning

Elaine Thomas Leonor Barroca Helen Donelan Karen Kear

Winner - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019.

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Gender Differences in completion and credit obtained in Level 2 study in Physical Sciences

Pam Budd

​Winner - Best Poster Presentation, 6th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2017.

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Enabling Mathematics and Statistics Associate Lecturers to achieve their potential

Rachel Hilliam

In the School of Mathematics and Statistics Associate Lectures (ALs) work across a wide range of modules both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. This study was undertaken before the faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology (MCT) merged with the faculty of Science.

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Investigating the careers of Staff Tutors in STEM for Athena SWAN

Rachel Hilliam

Staff Tutors within the STEM Faculty form a large part of the academic workforce and are described as the glue between central academics and students, however the role is varied and complex.

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Students’ study of online modules

Elaine Moore

The aim of this study was to obtain data on how students studied online modules and to use this to put in place amendments to the current presentation where this could be easily done or to subsequent presentations to enhance the students’ experience.

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A quantitative and qualitative investigation into communications sent to students for selected level 1 MST and science modules

Linda Robson

The Open University as a distance teaching organisation uses email communication as the main method of communication with students.

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Perceptions, Expectations and Experience of Group Tuition: towards a shared understanding amongst stakeholders

Ann Walshe Anne-Marie Gallen

Highly Commended - Enhancing the Student Experience, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2018.

Winner - Best Poster Presentation, 5th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2016.

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Flight of the Fritillary Phase 2

Emma Rothero

The Floodplain Meadows Partnership (FMP), hosted by the Open University, has been collecting data on the rare plant species snake’s-head fritillary at a National Nature Reserve (North Meadow, Cricklade, Wilts) since 1999, using volunteers.

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The impact of technology on the teaching and assessment of ‘systems diagrams’

Andy Lane

Diagramming is a creative process where the context and tools used to create the diagram may hinder or help students in learning both how to create diagrams that represent a situation and how to learn about diagramming and the situation.

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