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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The OpenScience Laboratory

Nick Braithwaite

The OpenScience Laboratory (OSL) was launched in July 2013 with generous funding from the Wolfson Foundation and significant investment from The Open University.

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Activities to improve the engagement of international students in online teaching

Simon Collinson Catherine Halliwell

Online teaching enables students to study from all around the globe to produce a diverse student cohort. As UK universities expand online provision and target international students key questions arise:

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Engaging Opportunities

Rick Holliman

Engaging Opportunities was funded by RCUK from 2013-2016 as one of 12 School-University Partnerships (SUPI).

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Developing robust assessment in the light of Generative AI developments

Liz Hardie Jonquil Lowe Mychelle Pryde Kevin Waugh Mirjam Hauck Francine Ryan Daniel Gooch Volker Patent Kieran McCartney Claire Maguire Mike Richards Heather Richardson

This was a cross-faculty NCFE (Northern Council for Further Education) funded project.

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Online practical work for science and engineering students

Mark Endean

This short scoping project aimed to assess the feasibility of and, ideally, shape a longer‐term programme of collaborative working between the Faculties of Science and MCT, and East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai, China.

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Gathering student perception about online/distance practical science at level 1

Victoria Nicholas

This eSTEeM project has investigated student perception about online practical science for two modules at level 1. Students were interviewed and completed online questionnaires before and after studying these modules. The interviews confirmed the anecdotal evidence that students felt mo

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Students’ study of online modules

Elaine Moore

The aim of this study was to obtain data on how students studied online modules and to use this to put in place amendments to the current presentation where this could be easily done or to subsequent presentations to enhance the students’ experience.

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Gathering student perception about online/distance practical science at level 2

Victoria Nicholas

We describe findings from a study based upon a collaborative project carried out online as the end of module assessment activity of a multidisciplinary science module at the UK Open University.

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Online Chemistry Support Clinics

Nick Chatterton Elaine Moore

The “Chemistry Clinics”, now re-named as “Getting Ready for….”, were initially designed to enhance retention and progression in the second-year chemistry module, S215.

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Understanding and improving students’ learning experience and engagement with practical science on-line: The case of virtual and remote microscopes

Christothea Herodotou

There is a need to better understand what works best for students who study practical science online in order to improve their overall learning experience.

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