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

141 results found

Encouraging verbal communication in online small-group Maths problem-solving sessions; taking inspiration from individual sessions

Abi Kirk

In OU STEM online tutorials, speech by students is seen to be rare. Evidence of this is provided by a sequence of studies, starting from the early days of online tutorials. However, students do speak in online individual support sessions (ISS).

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Support for Students. Teaching for Tutors. An Investigation into Ideas on Encouraging Students to Engage

Cathryn Peoples

According to the social constructivist model of learning, social opportunities are considered to be important in an educational experience for their positive influence. The principle is that the learning can be reinforced through the interaction with others.

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Welsh-medium tuition in Level 1 Mathematics/Addysgu Mathemateg Lefel 1 trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg

Andrew Potter Delyth Tomos Chris Hughes

Welsh-medium education has attracted increased attention over the past 50 years. Much research has been conducted in secondary and higher education contexts, including the teaching and learning of mathematics in Welsh.

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Using knowledge from Associate Lecturers in a Bayesian model to predict the probability of students’ results

Fadlalla Elfadaly

Predicting the passing probabilities of an online module has always been an interest in higher education. It helps in planning, decision making, providing feedback to students and also in helping students work around any difficulties or milestones that are predicted to affect their results.

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Modern Container-based Learning Interface and Delivery Infrastructure (MCLIDI)

Mark Hall Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui

The Modern Containerised Learning Interface and Delivery Infrastructure project developed and deployed a modern online learning environment and the required delivery infrastructure.

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Cultivating student led tutorials in STEM

Melanie Gregg Vivien Cleary

The objective of this small-scale study was to create a tutor free, active learning environment where students feel at ease to discuss and work on skill-based problems together.

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Improving student use of feedback on marked Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs)

Carol Calvert Clare Morris

The correspondence tuition that tutors provide, via the TMAs, is a key part of our teaching and support to students and represents a major investment of time and effort by tutors.

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Investigating how to enhance the idea generation process by students for their T452 project

Having taught on project modules at HNC, HND and final UG level (T452), I have observed that the most intense tutor engagement is when discussing possible topics.

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Engineering residential school or home experiments? A comparison from the perspective of both the student and the tutor

Alec Goodyear Iestyn Jowers Jan Kowal Carol Morris David Sharp

Residential schools are essential for accreditation of our engineering qualifications by Professional Engineering Institutions and they have had to be temporarily replaced by a set of practical engineering activities due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Online peer mentoring at scale: Benefits and impacts from a student buddy perspective

Julie Robson Chris Hutton

The benefits of peer mentoring for students studying in Higher Education are well established and have been demonstrated in online, blended and hybrid settings. Best practice in establishing financially sustainable schemes in online settings at a large scale is under researched.

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