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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Blending labcasts and remote/virtual experimentation: students’ perception in practical skills development

Eleanor Crabb Rob Janes Kate Bradshaw

Online practical work is now established across the OU STEM curriculum, in many modules and programmes.

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An evaluation of the impact of changes to assessment practice in a second-year object-oriented Java programming module

Anton Dil Sharon Dawes

The level two module Object-oriented programming with Java (M250) was rewritten for 2021, informed by student feedback and changes to our Level 1 offerings.

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Exploring a Peer Support Structure for Jupyter Notebooks and R on M348 (Applied Statistical Modelling)

Jotham Gaudoin

M348 (Applied Statistical Modelling) is a new module in applied statistics that will involve developing skills in the R software package via the use of Jupyter notebooks. It is a compulsory module for students on several qualifications and these students have a range of different backgrounds

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Understanding the postgraduate research student experience in a culture of collaborative leadership

Ann Grand

How leaders choose to lead inevitably has impacts on those who follow them. From the beginning of AstrobiologyOU, its directors have aspired to lead the group collaboratively.

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Barriers and Enablers for Future Designers within the awarding gap at the intersection of Race and Deprived Areas

Vera Hale Clive Hilton Alessandra Campoli

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Evaluating Statistics anxiety across different qualifications

Rachel Hilliam

This project addresses findings that were suggested from the evaluation of the project “How one module can serve multiple qualification t

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Changing times, changing pedagogies

Rachel Hilliam

The aim of the project was to investigate any lasting impact on how mathematical sciences courses are now taught following the rapid shift in teaching practices during the pandemic.

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Curriculum Development in Computing and Communications: Enabling the Student Voice, Facilitating Employability and Exploring Students’ Personal and Professional Aspirations

Alexis Lansbury Arabella Nock

This project will investigate whether our current C&C curriculum meets the personal and professional aspirations and employability needs of our students and identify curriculum-gaps from our students’ perspectives.

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OpenSTEM Africa: Ghana - Test and Learn with the University of Cape Coast

Kerry Murphy

Improving access to STEM education is viewed globally as a route to economic empowerment.

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Writing retreats for level 1 students

Victoria Nicholas Paul Collier

Students frequently cite time pressure as a challenge to successful study.

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