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

138 results found

Perceptions, Expectations and Experience of Group Tuition: towards a shared understanding amongst stakeholders

Ann Walshe Anne-Marie Gallen

Highly Commended - Enhancing the Student Experience, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2018.

Winner - Best Poster Presentation, 5th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2016.

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Breaking the coding barrier: transition from Level 1 to Level 2 programming

Frances Chetwynd

In this research we have investigated the use of a visual-based programming language at HE Stage 1 for beginner programmers.

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Implementation of lessons learnt from students who succeed “despite the odds”

Carol Calvert

Focusing on what makes for study success is not a new research pursuit – retrospective examination of factors contributing to study success generally reveal that students who do well have a predictable social, cultural, educational and cognitive profile which places them well to succeed.

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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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Investigating factors which affect active student participation during tutorials in online rooms

Diane Butler Lynda Cook Vikki Haley-Mirnar

Winner - Enhancing the Student Experience, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019.  

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Leading the way as a hydro nation in Scotland – supporting student transitions within a strategic partnership between Glasgow Clyde College, The Open University in Scotland and Heriot-Watt University

Sally Crighton

As part of their commitment to building a Hydro Nation (Scottish Government, 2015), Scottish Water approached the Open University in Scotland (OUiS) with a request to establish a bridging qualification from an Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Water Operations from Glasgow Clyde College, a qua

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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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A Flexible Start to M140

Carol Calvert

Winner - Enhancing the Student Experience, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2018.

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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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