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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Visual Interactive Learning of Engineering Concepts

Rongshan Qin

The project developed a visual interactive learning method to help engineering student to understand basic concepts. Many engineering concepts explain the relationships between various parameters.

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Assessing the effectiveness of the induction process for novice Associate Lecturers in the School of Life Health and Chemical Sciences in preparing them for the Associate Lecturer role

Janette Wallace Hannah Gauci

Background and issues to be addressed

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Changing the way the game is played: transforming postgraduate curriculum praxis and workplace capabilities

Martin Reynolds Ray Ison

Research question: what are the opportunities and challenges for re-visioning the role of postgraduate distance learning provision and curriculum design in shifting from a conventional emphasis on developing ‘competencies’ based on learning outcomes (playing ‘the game’ better) to

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Student perceptions and development of employability skills on a level 4 multidisciplinary science module

Fiona Aiken Chris Hutton

S112, Science: concepts and practice, was a new science module at the Open University in 2017.

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Developing programming problem-solving skills using individualised screencasts

Sarah Mattingly

Winner of the 4th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2021 under the category - Innovative Approach to Teaching.

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Use of augmented reality in a second level human biology module: benefits and challenges

Karen New

  • This project explored the use of a vision-based augmented reality (AR) application (Heart App), which has been developed by the Open University, specifically for a second level Human Biology module (SK299). 
  • Through multiple methodologies, including web survey, questionnaire
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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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Developing students and tutors perceptions of good mathematical communication on level one service mathematics module MU123: an investigation

Sally Crighton

The project addresses the issue of good mathematical communication for level one mathematics students.

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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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