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 factors which affect active student participation during tutorials in online rooms

Diane Butler Lynda Cook Vikki Haley-Mirnar

Winner of the 2nd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2019 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

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Gendered Choices - Motivation and degree choices of Computing and IT students: a gendered analysis

Clem Herman

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

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Leading the way as a hydro nation in Scotland – supporting student transitions within a strategic partnership between Glasgow Clyde College, The Open University in Scotland and Heriot-Watt University

Sally Crighton

As part of their commitment to building a Hydro Nation (Scottish Government, 2015), Scottish Water approached the Open University in Scotland (OUiS) with a request to establish a bridging qualification from an Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Water Operations from Glasgow Clyde College, a qua

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A Flexible Start to M140

Carol Calvert

Winner of the 1st eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2018 under the category – Enhancing the Student Experience.

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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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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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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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