eSTEeM

Centre for Scholarship and Innovation

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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.

Search results

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Associate Lecturer and student views of Science Faculty feedback processes

Sally Jordan Sarah Allman Claire Rostron

This project was funded by the OU's Study Experience Programme New Models of Assessment and Tuition Project.

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A quantitative and qualitative investigation into communications sent to students for selected level 1 MST and science modules

Linda Robson

The Open University as a distance teaching organisation uses email communication as the main method of communication with students.

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Perceptions, Expectations and Experience of Group Tuition: towards a shared understanding amongst stakeholders

Ann Walshe Anne-Marie Gallen

Highly Commended - Enhancing the Student Experience, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2018.

Winner - Best Poster Presentation, 5th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2016.

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Academic literacy and communicating assessment to students on L1 Science Modules

Claire Kotecki Prithvi Shrestha

This project aimed to understand assessment and how it is communicated to students in Level 1 Science with application across STEM subjects.

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Breaking the coding barrier: transition from Level 1 to Level 2 programming

Frances Chetwynd

In this research we have investigated the use of a visual-based programming language at HE Stage 1 for beginner programmers.

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Assessment analytics of student engagement with, and performance on, S217 online quizzes

Andrew Norton

This project used analytics information to investigate student engagement with, and attitudes towards, the online interactive quizzes that form part of S217 Physics: from Classical to Quantum.  

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Implementation of lessons learnt from students who succeed “despite the odds”

Carol Calvert

Focusing on what makes for study success is not a new research pursuit – retrospective examination of factors contributing to study success generally reveal that students who do well have a predictable social, cultural, educational and cognitive profile which places them well to succeed.

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Investigating factors which affect active student participation during tutorials in online rooms

Diane Butler Lynda Cook Vikki Haley-Mirnar

Winner - Enhancing the Student Experience, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019.  

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Use of STACK to generate formative assessment for level 3 Pure mathematics

Hayley Ryder

Highly Commended - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2020. 

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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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