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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Thresholded assessment: does it work?

Sally Jordan

Many Science Faculty modules have moved from their previous summative continuous assessment to formative but thresholded continuous assessment. The aim of the project was to evaluate this Faculty-wide change in practice.

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Understanding the challenges of learning to program at level 2

Chris Douce

Learning to program is a skill that some students struggle with.  TT284, Web Technologies, requires students to write code using a number of different programming languages: Javascript, PHP and Google AppInventor. Many students who take TT284 would have completed TU10

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The use of smart phones to enhance teaching in environmental engineering and environmental science modules

Suresh Nesaratnam Shahram Taherzadeh

This study considered the availability of smart phone environmental apps that could be used in the teaching of environmental engineering and environmental science. Several apps in the field of noise, water and air were found to be freely available on the Internet.

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How students’ use of language relates to learning, retention and performance in assessment on TU100

John Woodthorpe Jim Donohue

This project built on previous work between MCT and WELS (formally FELS) on language use and student attainment at level 1, including in the production of TU100.

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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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Evaluation of The OpenScience Lab’s 3D Virtual Skiddaw application

Shailey Minocha Tom Argles Steve Tilling

In this project1, we had the following research objectives towards investigating the pedagogical advantages of virtual field trips (VTFs) and the challenges for their adoption:

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Using OpenStudio in STEM learning

Elaine Thomas Leonor Barroca Helen Donelan Karen Kear

Winner of the 2nd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2019 under the category - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

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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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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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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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