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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Career Development for STEM professionals

Clem Herman

The overall aim of this project was to develop a sustainable framework for supporting students into STEM employment, focusing on careers advice and professional development for those who are seeking to enter, return to or progress their careers in this sector.

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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 Presence for Learning and Employability: students' use of profiles in social networking environments

Karen Kear

The widespread use of social network sites means that ‘online presence’ is becoming increasingly important for social, educational and employment purposes. The most obvious examples of users’ online presence can be found in the personal profiles on sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

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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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E-Ambassadors and E-Portfolios: Exploring innovative methods to embed employability in practice based STEM distance learning

Nigel Mason Clem Herman

This project investigated the use of online technologies for the delivery of careers and employability advice to distance learning STEM students with the aim of informing the future development of careers and employability provision.

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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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