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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Piloting OU Analyse and the Student Probabilities Model on 12 STEM Modules

Carlton Wood Steve Walker

The eSTEeM project Piloting OU Analyse and the Student Probabilities Model on 12 STEM Modules was established in November 2017 and aimed to explore whether, and how, these two learning analytics tools, could contribute to one of the four priorities - the use of data and analytics -

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Supporting Degree Apprenticeship students: Tutors’ and Students’ perspectives

Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui

Recently the UK government has initiated various initiatives and strategies to address the need for increased STEM skills in the workplace.

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An investigation into how STEM students use learning resources in different formats, and how this use develops over time

Laura Alexander Alexis Lansbury

Winner of the 4th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2021 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

An overall summary of our findings would be that:-

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Perceptions, Expectations and Experience of Group Tuition: towards a shared understanding amongst stakeholders (part II: the student perspective)

Anne Campbell Mark Jones Anne-Marie Gallen

Winner of the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2023.

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Early start MU123

Carol Calvert Luay Salman

A flexible start programme was introduced in July- September 2018 for the MU123 18J presentation. There was a high take up from students with just under 200 students participating, which was 43% of those offered a place, and this meant that the programme was full to capacity.

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Usage of Early Alerts Indicators on two level 1 modules

Carol Calvert Alison Bromley Chris Hughes

The Open University (UK) has developed two systems of predictive modelling to identify students at risk.

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STEM ISSS - where are we now? Evaluating awareness, usage and effectiveness of individual student support sessions

Fiona Moorman Karen New

Our distance learning students study in isolation and are an increasingly diverse cohort, many with disabilities and balancing work, family and caring commitments alongside study workload, with many students opting to study at high intensity with potential overlap between J and B presentations.

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Evaluating student perspectives of different types of learning events provided on SDK228, a level 2 LHCS module

Janette Wallace

SDK228, Science of the mind: Investigating mental health was a level two interdisciplinary Life, Health and Chemical Science (LHCS) module that attracted students from a variety of backgrounds including health and natural sciences, health and social care, nursing, psychology and counselling.

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Summer Series of Journal Clubs: an opportunity to develop employability skills and a sense of community amongst students in secure environments

Karen New Fiona Moorman Hannah Gauci

In keeping with the ethos ‘open to all’, The Open University (OU) has provided higher education opportunities to students in secure environments (SiSE) for over 40 years, currently reaching over 150 secure environments (Open University, 2020).

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Evaluating the level 1 engineering tutors resource

Anne-Marie Gallen Clare Reger

Reusability is a key concept for educators. For many of the associate lectures at the Open University, the group tuition policy has resulted in repetition of tutorial structure and delivery with ALs across clusters giving similar tutorials on the same topics at similar times.

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