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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Gender Differences in completion and credit obtained in Level 2 study in Physical Sciences

Pam Budd

​Winner of the 2nd Best Poster Competition at the 6th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 25-26 April 2017.

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The impact of technology on the teaching and assessment of ‘systems diagrams’

Andy Lane

Diagramming is a creative process where the context and tools used to create the diagram may hinder or help students in learning both how to create diagrams that represent a situation and how to learn about diagramming and the situation.

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Are we making progress? Progression through learners’ interaction in OpenStudio across a qualification

Nicole Lotz

The project set out to better understand how learners in the Design and Innovation Qualification at the Open University progress in OpenStudio as they move through their qualification.

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Sonification of depictions of numerical data

Karen Vines Chris Hughes

Winner of the 1st eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2018 under the category – Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

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Visualising the code: are students engaging with programming at level 1?

Elaine Thomas Helen Jefferis Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui

This project Visualising the code: are students engaging with programming at Level 1? investigated the impact of using a visual programming environment on student engagement with programming.

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Assessing The ‘Open Field Lab’: Evaluating Interactive Fieldcasts for Enhancing Access to Fieldwork

Phil Wheeler Julia Cooke Kadmiel Maseyk Trevor Collins

Fieldwork is a fundamental part of the curriculum in undergraduate biological, environmental, Earth and geographical sciences, but not all students are able to participate in authentic field activities.

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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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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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Development and evaluation of a software tool for automated Java specification marking

Anton Dil

Highly Commended at the 2nd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019 under the category - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

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