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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Skills progression in practical science within the Life Sciences

Janet Haresnape

Employability is an increasingly important concern in contemporary Higher Education (HE).

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Evaluation of a community partnership approach using open educational resources: Equate Scotland and the Returning to STEM BOC

Clem Herman

According to research, an estimated 1 in 9 mothers, or 54,000 women every year, report being forced out of jobs following maternity leave and those that are coming back after maternity breaks or after a break, required support and interventions to help them with on-ramping (EHRC 2016; Greer, 2013

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Supporting MST224 students with bridging material during their transition from level one mathematics

Sue Pawley Chris Hughes

Using funding from eSTEeM, we have created an interactive website and series of online tutorials under the umbrella of Revise and Refresh (R&R) for MST224: Mathematical methods.

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Utilising the Teaching Tricky Topic process to Identify and Address Student Misunderstandings across Three OU Modules

Elizabeth FitzGerald Rob Janes Elaine Moore Jo Iacovides

In summary, this project aimed to create shared understandings of disciplinary misconceptions (Tricky Topics) in particular modules, and to create new ways of overcoming those misconceptions.

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Factors affecting student success in the workplace

Hilary MacQueen

  • We undertook a survey of graduates of a distance-taught work-based learning qualification (the Foundation Degree in Paramedic Sciences) to identify aspects of support required by students to succeed in this context.
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Engineering qualifications at the OU – what motivates women to study?

Carol Morris Sally Organ

Winner of the 3rd Best Poster Competition at the 7th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 25-26 April 2018.

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VISION - Visual Interfaces for Systematising and Interpreting Online Notes

Ale Okada Anna De Liddo Andrea Berardi

Understanding students’ preferences and habits about digital reading is fundamental to support paperless learning.

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Sonification partial pilot on M140

Karen Vines Chris Hughes

Sonifications are audio representations of graphs, and as such are an ‘alternative format’ which could be used to improve accessibility of module materials.

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Towards A Structured Process for Involving ALs in Module Tuition Strategy Design and Review

Ann Walshe

Following the introduction of the Group Tuition Policy (GTP) in 2016, Associate Lecturers (ALs) were given the opportunity in 2017 to feed back into a review of the newly created module tuition strategies. In the STEM Faculty a Toolkit was provided to support the review.

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Use of OULive recordings of `live mathematics’ and discussion forums on a level 3 Pure mathematics module in order to enable students to move to a growth mindset in maths and to add a social dimension to learning mathematics

Hayley Ryder Tacey O'Neil

Highly Commended at the 8th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2025.

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