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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Learning behaviours and successful outcomes in STEM students

Elizabeth Ellis Alice Gallagher

Since 2016 the Learning Innovation team has been engaged in a series of research activities designed to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying study habits and learning behaviour of OU students, in order to inform the future development of pedagogy, systems, tools and platforms. Poten

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Can a new OU Study App enhance the learning experience of students on S350, an online only module?

Simon Collinson Rachel McMullan Catherine Halliwell

In 2019 twenty-one modules volunteered to pilot a new OU Study App (The Open University, 2019); since January 2021 all module websites are available.

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Are virtual visits an effective way of engaging learners?

David Conway Christine Gardner Janet Hughes

​Winner of the 5th Best Poster Competition at the 9th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 29-30 April 2020.

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Investigating the perceived benefits to computing students of remote pair programming

Janet Hughes Ann Walshe

Winner of the 5th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2022.

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Are You Ready for Your Studies - Are we Assessing Students Readiness? An evaluation of the usefulness of the Level 2 ARFY quizzes

Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui Oli Howson

The aim of this project is to investigate the success of using the diagnostic AYRF ('Are You Ready For') quizzes and their role in preparing undergraduate students for their level 2 modules (TT284 (Web technologies) M269 (Algorithms, data structures & computability) and M250

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Supporting student academic skills development - an evaluation of an English for Academic Purposes pilot

Jo Fayram John Woodthorpe

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

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All change, but does tuition in cluster groups work?

Helen Jefferis

In recent years tutors have been asked to commit to a timetable of tutorials some time before the start of a module so that a full list of available tutorials can be provided to students as soon as they start their studies.

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The value to students of drop-in tutorials to support assessment

Maria Townsend

Open University standard online tutorials are generally tutor-led with the tutor setting the agenda and content to be covered. Although they include both presentation and activities, some students are reluctant to actively participate.

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How one module can serve multiple qualifications through tailored implementation of presentation

Carol Calvert Rachel Hilliam

Students taking qualifications mainly in science, economics and data sciences are now the majority of the students on a second-year undergraduate statistics course.

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Using Bitesize Videos to Enhance Students’ Experiences in a Level 2 Programming Module

Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui Mark Hall Marina Carter

TT284 is a popular level 2 Web technologies module attracting over 1000 students in each presentation.

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