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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Clem Herman

This study investigates the gendered degree choices and motivations of Computing and IT students.

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Martin Reynolds

The eSTEeM project was a 12-month inquiry beginning March 2017 building on an initial eSTEeM project (2014-2016) entitled ‘Enhancing Systems Thinking in Practice in the Workplace’ reported on in Reynolds et al (2

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Sally Crighton

This project stemmed from the first named author’s continuing interest in developing scholarship in a community of Open University (OU) Associate Lecturers (ALs) living in Scotland and teaching Mathematics & Statistics (M&S) modules.

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Janet Haresnape

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

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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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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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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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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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Mark Endean Daphne Chang

Staff in academic and academic-related posts at other higher education institutions worldwide have been welcome at the OU since its founding in 1969.

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Claudia Eckert

Based on a series of interviews carried out in 2018 with experienced European engineers and a workshop with Product development experts from over twenty leading Swedish company and academics researching and teaching product development, trends and their expected impact on engineering design can b

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