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.

Search results

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Creating a visual learning journey in S209: an accessible overview of key milestones in an undergraduate science module helping students to see links and stay motivated

Arabelle Bentley Iris Verhagen

The aim of this project is to design and implement a detailed visual, interactive map of the learning pathway in S209 (Earth Science) that students will be able to access for the duration of the module.  Not only will this map provide an accessible overview of the module content, it will als

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Overcoming the Barriers to Success in T452: Enabling Students (OBSTACLES)

Gareth Neighbour Andrea Patel

The Engineering degree’s capstone module, The Engineering Project (T452), is core to achieving compliance with UK-SPEC, achieving accreditation with the professional institutions, and as such shares many features with project modules elsewhere.  However, in the distance learning context, stu

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Students as partners to incorporate learning preferences and inclusivity into curriculum design and improve learning outcomes

Ruth Neal Ellen Marshall

This project aims to evaluate how current instructional methods on two statistics modules M140 (Introducing Statistics) and M248 (Analysing data) meet the learning needs and preferences of a diverse student population.

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Exploring How Informal and Structured Environmental Engagement Opportunities Support Distance Learning Student Wellbeing and Sense of Belonging

Harriet Marshall Yvonne Chakraborty

Focusing on OU students studying environment-related modules, this pilot study will investigate how community engagement can act as an empowering intervention for all students, particularly for those facing eco-anxiety. 

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Access to Stage 1 – consolidated support for STEM pathways

Catherine Scott Fiona Aiken Eira Patterson

This proposal outlines plans to evaluate the impact of a ‘Learn 1’ VLE currently being developed as part of the AOCcI-supported project Skills for Success: Access and Beyond. The VLE will host resources to support STEM Access students (Y/XFT033) in developing and consolidating maths and

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