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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Creative Climate Learning: common resources on environmental change

Joe Smith

Creative Climate is a long-term online environmental communications initiative that gathers accounts of people’s understanding and action on environmental change issues.

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Geospatial technologies in distance learning and teaching in Science

Tom Argles Sarah Davies

Geospatial technologies (that underpin services such as Google Earth™, ArcGIS™, remote sensing and GPS) can be used to help students grasp difficult or threshold concepts, such as 3D visualisation, and improve their spatial thinking skills, or ‘spatial literacy’.

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Infinite Bandwidth Zero Latency - IBZL2

Steve Walker

IBZL is a thought experiment. It starts from the question: what if bandwidth (and latency) in networks like the internet didn't matter any more? What would become possible?

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iChart - Interactive Exploration of Data Charts

Michel Wermelinger

Data charts are used in many magazines, newspapers and official reports. Data journalism is on the rise. Big data is a familiar buzz word. And yet the public in general often does not have an easy way to explore the data and statistics that are thrown at them to justify a particular argument.

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Online practical work for science and engineering students

Mark Endean

This short scoping project aimed to assess the feasibility of and, ideally, shape a longer‐term programme of collaborative working between the Faculties of Science and MCT, and East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai, China.

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Hybrid/Digital Networked Learning scruffy mongrel or sleek new breed?

Elaine Thomas Steve Walker Sarah Davies

The ‘Hybrid Digital Material Networked Learning’ project or 'The Mongrel Project’ aimed to explore learning experiences involving networked physical and digital resources.

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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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Gathering student perception about online/distance practical science at level 1

Victoria Nicholas

This eSTEeM project has investigated student perception about online practical science for two modules at level 1. Students were interviewed and completed online questionnaires before and after studying these modules. The interviews confirmed the anecdotal evidence that students felt mo

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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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