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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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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Evaluation of The OpenScience Lab’s 3D Virtual Skiddaw application

Shailey Minocha Tom Argles Steve Tilling

In this project1, we had the following research objectives towards investigating the pedagogical advantages of virtual field trips (VTFs) and the challenges for their adoption:

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Using OpenStudio in STEM learning

Elaine Thomas Leonor Barroca Helen Donelan Karen Kear

Winner - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019.

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The impact of technology on the teaching and assessment of ‘systems diagrams’

Andy Lane

Diagramming is a creative process where the context and tools used to create the diagram may hinder or help students in learning both how to create diagrams that represent a situation and how to learn about diagramming and the situation.

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Are we making progress? Progression through learners’ interaction in OpenStudio across a qualification

Nicole Lotz

The project set out to better understand how learners in the Design and Innovation Qualification at the Open University progress in OpenStudio as they move through their qualification.

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Visualising the code: are students engaging with programming at level 1?

Elaine Thomas Helen Jefferis Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui

This project Visualising the code: are students engaging with programming at Level 1? investigated the impact of using a visual programming environment on student engagement with programming.

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Assessing The ‘Open Field Lab’: Evaluating Interactive Fieldcasts for Enhancing Access to Fieldwork

Phil Wheeler Julia Cooke Kadmiel Maseyk Trevor Collins

Fieldwork is a fundamental part of the curriculum in undergraduate biological, environmental, Earth and geographical sciences, but not all students are able to participate in authentic field activities.

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Development and evaluation of a software tool for automated Java specification marking

Anton Dil

Highly Commended - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019.

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Does the provision of an `own working space’ for tutors enhance the learning experience for students?

Hayley Ryder Tacey O'Neil

In response to the group tuition policy (GTP), on M303 (Further pure mathematics) we designed a comprehensive list of about 60 tutor-led cluster-level tutorials to replace the standard 7 tutorials per group in a cost neutral way.

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