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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Online module forums: espoused, actual and improved

Barbara Jones

The main goal was to analyse what actually occurred in the T313 and T317 TMA and EMA forums and to make comparisons between them with a view to

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Personalised Student Support Plans: Examining the Effectiveness of Support Recommendations made by Students

Cathryn Peoples

The literature suggests that students want more from academic staff, from desiring to be treated with explicit respect [[i]] to being co-creators of their teaching and learning material [[ii]] [[iii]].

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Do OU students understand the Learning Outcomes on courses in general and in T176, T192, T193, T194 in particular?

Alan Yate

Anecdotal evidence from ALs tutoring on some Level 1 Engineering modules seems to show that students on Engineering modules do not fully engage with the Learning Outcomes (LOs).

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Blended tutorials in Mathematics: simultaneous F2F and online learning events

Andrew Potter Colin Blundell

A blended tutorial is a single learning event which gives students the opportunity of attending face-to-face or online.

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Teaching distributed computing using Raspberry Pi clusters at a distance

Daniel Gooch

A Parallel and distributed computing (PDC) is now considered a threshold concept for computing, and is embedded in computing curricula across the globe.

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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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Evaluating a new STEM AL induction programme

Hannah Gauci Janette Wallace

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

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Accessibility and inclusion in tuition (AccIT)

Rachel Slater Anne Campbell Elaine McPherson

The AccIT project has four main aims:

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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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Associate Lecturers’ Involvement in Improved Practice in a SXPS288 Labcast Delivery

Venetia Brown

Tutors who work in distance education often have less opportunities to participate in important, practical science experiences with colleagues.

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