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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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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A review of the use of Office 365 and Adobe Connect for active learning by ALs tutoring on T227 and TXY227

Katharine Jewitt

This scholarship work took place to identify what Open University (OU) approved technologies (Adobe Connect and Microsoft Office 365 applications) are being used by Associate Lecturers (ALs) and explore how and why they are being used for teaching and learning.

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

Sarah Davies Jane Cullen Kerry Murphy Maria Velasco

Nationwide in Ghana there is pressure on practical STEM teaching and learning because of the scarcity of laboratory space, equipment and resources at Senior High School (SHS) (upper secondary) and university undergraduate (tertiary) level. Participation in STEM within Ghana and across Africa

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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 - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2018.

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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

One of the key challenges within the Open University (OU) is the lack of student engagement, which impacts students’ continuation and completion of their studies.

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Transforming learning and assessment through didactic games in virtual calculus classroom

Ivan Sudakow Andrey Umerski

This eSTEeM project explored the effectiveness and reception of didactic games as a teaching and learning tool in an online calculus classroom.

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