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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Online Chemistry Support Clinics

Nick Chatterton Elaine Moore

The “Chemistry Clinics”, now re-named as “Getting Ready for….”, were initially designed to enhance retention and progression in the second-year chemistry module, S215.

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Measuring qualification effects of a new pedagogy which embeds learning and assessment activities within each student’s rich professional context of practice

Lucia Rapanotti

We report on the outcomes of an eSTEeM project focused on a pedagogical approach implemented in three post-graduate modules for a recently introduced Computing qualification (F66 MSc in Computing), where the students’ own professional context of practice, rather than fictitious case studies, is u

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Understanding and improving students’ learning experience and engagement with practical science on-line: The case of virtual and remote microscopes

Christothea Herodotou

There is a need to better understand what works best for students who study practical science online in order to improve their overall learning experience.

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SDK100 – what aspects of this online only module are the students engaging with?

Vikki Haley-Mirnar Carol Midgley

SDK100 Introduction to health sciences, an evidence-based approach (first presented in October 2015) is the Level 1 entry module for the Q71 BSc Health Sciences pathway. It was the first core module in Science to be delivered entirely online.

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Understanding on-line teaching practice: the importance of the observation

Chris Douce

This project captured and identified the practice of tutorial observations from two different perspectives: the perspective of the distance learning tutor, and the perspective of their manager or staff tutor.

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Framing Professional Competencies for Systems Thinking in Practice

Martin Reynolds

The eSTEeM project was a 12-month inquiry beginning March 2017 building on an initial eSTEeM project (2014-2016) entitled ‘Enhancing Systems Thinking in Practice in the Workplace’ reported on in Reynolds et al (2

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Using peer observation within a Mathematics and Statistics community of practice in Scotland

Sally Crighton

This project stemmed from the first named author’s continuing interest in developing scholarship in a community of Open University (OU) Associate Lecturers (ALs) living in Scotland and teaching Mathematics & Statistics (M&S) modules.

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Skills progression in practical science within the Life Sciences

Janet Haresnape

Employability is an increasingly important concern in contemporary Higher Education (HE).

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Evaluation of a community partnership approach using open educational resources: Equate Scotland and the Returning to STEM BOC

Clem Herman

According to research, an estimated 1 in 9 mothers, or 54,000 women every year, report being forced out of jobs following maternity leave and those that are coming back after maternity breaks or after a break, required support and interventions to help them with on-ramping (EHRC 2016; Greer, 2013

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Factors affecting student success in the workplace

Hilary MacQueen

  • We undertook a survey of graduates of a distance-taught work-based learning qualification (the Foundation Degree in Paramedic Sciences) to identify aspects of support required by students to succeed in this context.
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