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 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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The Mathematics and Statistics Community of Learners

Rachel Hilliam

The Mathematics and Statistics Study Site was created in September 2017 and was one of a number of pilot study sites in the OU. Many of the resources on the site have grown out of smaller scholarship projects.

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Qualification Study websites: uptake and practice

Georgy Holden

This project sought to understand how the subject sites are being used and how they are perceived by students. The project took the approach of looking at all of the undergraduate subject sites in STEM.

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Factors influencing female participation in Physical Science Postgraduate Research Programmes

Clare Reger Mark Bowden Anne-Marie Gallen

The aim of this project was to conduct a scoping study into why lower numbers of female graduates choose nuclear fusion Ph.D.s relative to other physical sciences. This is a particularly nuanced study as we are considering the nuclear fusion research pathway in comparison to other STEM routes.

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Disproved predictions of at-risk students: Some students fail despite doing well, others succeed despite predicted as at-risk

Martin Hlosta

Most of the research around the identification of at-risk students and the prediction of their performance using Machine Learning focuses on developing the most accurate model.

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Improving success and satisfaction of credit transfer students entering L3 modules in Science

Eleanor Crabb Jane Loughlin

Credit transfer students are often regarded as having the potential to succeed in distance learning.

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Developing students and tutors perceptions of good mathematical communication on level one service mathematics module MU123: an investigation

Sally Crighton

The project addresses the issue of good mathematical communication for level one mathematics students.

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Strategies to support students and tutors with online collaborative projects: an action research project

Shirley Evans Winston Graham Manish Malik

Development of group working skills is important both in terms of employability and as part of a collaborative learning approach but students may not always recognise the importance of it.

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How are students using extensions and what is the impact on success?

Catherine Halliwell Cath Brown

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

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Can an asynchronous student conference in Open Studio develop students’ critical evaluation skills?

Catherine Halliwell Jenny Duckworth

The level 3 module Evaluating Contemporary Science (S350), helps students learn, develop and apply important key skills such as evaluation of current science research and communication of these findings to different audiences, along with professional skills such as time-management, giving constru

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