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 journal clubs in distance higher education: an opportunity to develop skills and community?

Fiona Moorman Karen New

Winner of the 3rd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2020 under the category - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

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Using technology-enabled learning networks to drive module improvements in STEM

Lesley Boyd Rob Janes

This project provides one way to answer the need to close the feedback loop between OU tutors and campus-based teams, to develop a joint understanding of teaching and learning design challenges, and to put tutors as close as possible to the development of solutions.

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Understanding and mitigating students difficulties in undertaking complex practical activities on their computers

Patrick Wong

Hands-on practical activities can improve students understanding of technological concepts and provide an opportunity to improve their technical skills.

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Supporting students in online tuition from Access through the student journey

Carlton Wood Lynda Cook

Within many STEM modules we have moved to an online platform for learning events, including tuition.  Whilst there are many benefits to online tuition by both tutors and students (such as remote access) anecdotal evidence suggests that STEM OU students do not actively participate in online t

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Blended tutorials in Mathematics: simultaneous F2F and online learning events

Andrew Potter Colin Blundell

A blended tutorial is a single learning event which gives students the opportunity of attending face-to-face or online.

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Teaching distributed computing using Raspberry Pi clusters at a distance

Daniel Gooch

A Parallel and distributed computing (PDC) is now considered a threshold concept for computing, and is embedded in computing curricula across the globe.

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Associate Lecturers’ Involvement in Improved Practice in a SXPS288 Labcast Delivery

Venetia Brown

Tutors who work in distance education often have less opportunities to participate in important, practical science experiences with colleagues.

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Pair Programming as a tool to enhance teaching and learning of programming at a distance

Adeola Adeliyi

Pair programming promotes immediate, informal collaboration over coding activities. The driving developer writes the code and controls the keyboard and mouse; the navigating developer checks the code as it is written by the driver, and the developers swap their roles frequently.

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An investigation into the way Jupyter Notebooks enhance learning and teaching on TM351

Sharon Dawes Autumn Thomson

TM351 Data management and analysis has used Jupyter (2019) notebooks for practical work from its inception in 2016 and this project investigated how the notebooks supported students' learning.

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An investigation into the breadth of learning objectives and skills developed in OpenSTEM Labs experiments

Helen Lockett

Highly Commended at the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2023.

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