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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Wisdom from Groups

Simon Bell

The project themes can be set out in short hand as follows: Online group work. How we get better at it, the need to do more, providing students with experience, innovation in method and reaching out by means of a story set out in a graphic novel.

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Active learning in synchronous online tuition: increasing student interaction

Katrine Rogers

Highly Commended at the 3rd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2020 under the category – Enhancing the Student Experience.

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Analytics for tracking student engagement

Christine Gardner

Although there has been much research in the area of data analytics in recent years (e.g. Shum and Ferguson 2012), there are questions regarding which analytic methodologies can be most effective in informing higher education teaching and learning practices (Gibson and de Freitas, 2016).

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Using Student Analytics with tutors to increase retention

Katie Chicot

Highly Commended at the 2nd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

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Developing a sense of community through cross‐level engagement between staff and students in creative industries subjects

Nicole Lotz

The overall project set out to pilot and evaluate innovative programme level blended engagement events that aim to create a community of learners across a qualification.

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Assessment banking – useful break or deferred withdrawal? An investigation of the outcomes and experience for students who have assessment banked

Linda Robson

One of the options for students facing difficulties with their studies is to assessment bank their TMAs and take an extended break, with the intention of returning at the same point in the next presentation of their module.

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Piloting OU Analyse and the Student Probabilities Model on 12 STEM Modules

Carlton Wood Steve Walker

The eSTEeM project Piloting OU Analyse and the Student Probabilities Model on 12 STEM Modules was established in November 2017 and aimed to explore whether, and how, these two learning analytics tools, could contribute to one of the four priorities - the use of data and analytics -

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Supporting Degree Apprenticeship students: Tutors’ and Students’ perspectives

Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui

Recently the UK government has initiated various initiatives and strategies to address the need for increased STEM skills in the workplace.

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An investigation into how STEM students use learning resources in different formats, and how this use develops over time

Laura Alexander Alexis Lansbury

Winner of the 4th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2021 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

An overall summary of our findings would be that:-

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Perceptions, Expectations and Experience of Group Tuition: towards a shared understanding amongst stakeholders (part II: the student perspective)

Anne Campbell Mark Jones Anne-Marie Gallen

Winner of the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2023.

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