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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Understanding different perspectives of postgraduate education in the international arena

Leonor Barroca

This project was set up to investigate the short term opportunities in international markets (focus on Portugal and Brazil) for the OU’s postgraduate offerings in ICT & Computing (with a focus on software engineering).

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Exploring global potential for WaSH distance education and training

Pam Furniss

The original aim of this project when it started in 2011 was to explore the potential for WASH distance education and training in a global market. WASH stands for water, sanitation and hygiene. At that time the final objective was to prepare a bid for funding.

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OpenWASH evaluation

Pam Furniss

OpenWASH is an international Open University programme that provides learning resources for the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Ethiopia. The initial project (2014-2016), in partnership with UNICEF and World Vision Ethiopia, produced five OpenWASH modules and a Trainers’ Handbook.

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Enhancing professional networking and engagement using social media

Helen Donelan

The overall aim of this project was to investigate how STEM academics are currently using social media to engage with existing professional networks and extended communities, and to explore ways to support those who want to use these tools more effectively. The project explores the following:

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Flight of the Fritillary

Emma Rothero

The Floodplain Meadows Partnership (FMP), hosted by the Open University, has been collecting data on the rare Snakeshead fritillary plant at a National Nature Reserve (North Meadow, Cricklade, Wilts) since 1999, using volunteers.

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Flight of the Fritillary Phase 2

Emma Rothero

The Floodplain Meadows Partnership (FMP), hosted by the Open University, has been collecting data on the rare plant species snake’s-head fritillary at a National Nature Reserve (North Meadow, Cricklade, Wilts) since 1999, using volunteers.

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership Ambassadors

Emma Rothero

The Floodplain Meadows Partnership ran a 3-year long training programme for volunteers (called FMP Ambassadors) to become more familiar with the scientific methods of assessment for managing and restoring species rich floodplain meadows.

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Developing STEM public engagement through comedy

Chris Douce Judith Taylor

Communication and presentation skills is an important and essential element to doctoral training. The university help students to develop those skills by providing opportunities to enable students to share their work with others through events such as PhD student conferences.

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