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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Modern Container-based Learning Interface and Delivery Infrastructure (MCLIDI)

Mark Hall Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui

The Modern Containerised Learning Interface and Delivery Infrastructure project developed and deployed a modern online learning environment and the required delivery infrastructure.

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Challenges of assessment for a level 3 interdisciplinary module: an AL and student perspective

Jenny Duckworth Harriet Marshall

Student engagement and learning is strongly driven by assessment feedback. On the interdisciplinary module SDT306 (Environment: Responding to Change), tutors grade and provide feedback against learning outcomes (LOs) using a marking grid.

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Pair marking: Working together to improve our teaching

Nigel Gibson Kate Sim

This project aims to investigate using dynamically shared marking documents to support new tutors. In the process it will also provide this group some additional mentoring, and it allow experienced tutors to reflect on their own work and to share and develop good practice.

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An evaluation of the impact of changes to assessment practice in a second-year object-oriented Java programming module

Anton Dil Sharon Dawes

The level two module Object-oriented programming with Java (M250) was rewritten for 2021, informed by student feedback and changes to our Level 1 offerings.

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Changing times, changing pedagogies

Rachel Hilliam

The aim of the project was to investigate any lasting impact on how mathematical sciences courses are now taught following the rapid shift in teaching practices during the pandemic.

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OpenSTEM Africa: Ghana - Test and Learn with the University of Cape Coast

Kerry Murphy

Improving access to STEM education is viewed globally as a route to economic empowerment.

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The Use of Learning Analytics in STEM over 4 years

Tom Olney Carlton Wood

Learning analytics is a rapidly expanding area of interest for many higher education institutions.

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Haptic thinking; identifying haptic tooling interventions for an online design course

Lisa Bowers

Highly Commended at the 1st eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2018 under the category – Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

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How should formative assessments be assessed? A study of S217 online quizzes

Jonathan Nylk Andy Diament

The aim of this project is to evaluate the level of student engagement with the online quizzes on S217 Physics: from Classical to Quantum, comparing the current model of assessment with a formative thresholded assessment model which has been shown to have a marked positive impact on stud

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Exploring the impact of virtual reality on engagement and accessibility of tutorials for students studying S296

Sarah Daniell Lorraine Waters Katja Rietdorf

With many students opting to defer part way through a presentation and fewer attending live tutorials in Adobe Connect (AC), this project proposes to pilot the introduction of a series of four short (20-30 minute) tutorials using the Mozilla Hubs Virtual Reality (VR) platform on S296, Cell an

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