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

Anton Dil

Highly Commended - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019.

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Does the provision of an `own working space’ for tutors enhance the learning experience for students?

Hayley Ryder Tacey O'Neil

In response to the group tuition policy (GTP), on M303 (Further pure mathematics) we designed a comprehensive list of about 60 tutor-led cluster-level tutorials to replace the standard 7 tutorials per group in a cost neutral way.

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Pilot trial of a smart phone App for ascertaining water quality

Suresh Nesaratnam Shahram Taherzadeh

An important aspect of studying a technological module such as T868 Environmental monitoring and protection, is the acquisition of practical skills. Normally such skills are taught through practical sessions in a laboratory. Sometimes they are taught in the field.

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Visual Interactive Learning of Engineering Concepts

Rongshan Qin

The project developed a visual interactive learning method to help engineering student to understand basic concepts. Many engineering concepts explain the relationships between various parameters.

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Developing programming problem-solving skills using individualised screencasts

Sarah Mattingly

Winner - Innovative Approach to Teaching, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2021.

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Use of augmented reality in a second level human biology module: benefits and challenges

Karen New

  • This project explored the use of a vision-based augmented reality (AR) application (Heart App), which has been developed by the Open University, specifically for a second level Human Biology module (SK299). 
  • Through multiple methodologies, including web survey, questionnaire
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