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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Evaluating a new STEM AL induction programme

Hannah Gauci Janette Wallace

Highly Commended at the 5th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2022.

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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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Measuring the Impact of Learning Design and Course Creation (LDCC) Workshops

Tom Olney

Highly Commended at the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2024.

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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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Degree-Apprenticeships: Embedding learning in the practice-tutor, apprentice, employer tripartite

Alexis Lansbury Autumn Thomson Andy Hollyhead

This project will focus on the undergraduate degree-apprenticeships offered by the School of Computing and Communications in England and Wales.

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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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Remote sighted helper support for visually impaired students: exploring good practice: Stage 1

Richard Walker

Highly Commended at the 4th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2021 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

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Using Learning Logs in SXPS288 – Effectiveness in helping students to reach Learning Outcomes, to enhance and document their employability skills, and raise awareness of opportunities in the space sector

Alan Cayless

Within the physical sciences curriculum, employability and skills development elements are being incorporated into modules in order to address the Open University Employability Policy and also to address the employability and careers development requirements of Institute of Physics (IoP) accredit

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