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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Towards A Structured Process for Involving ALs in Module Tuition Strategy Design and Review

Ann Walshe

Following the introduction of the Group Tuition Policy (GTP) in 2016, Associate Lecturers (ALs) were given the opportunity in 2017 to feed back into a review of the newly created module tuition strategies. In the STEM Faculty a Toolkit was provided to support the review.

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Use of OULive recordings of `live mathematics’ and discussion forums on a level 3 Pure mathematics module in order to enable students to move to a growth mindset in maths and to add a social dimension to learning mathematics

Hayley Ryder Tacey O'Neil

Highly Commended at the 8th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2025.

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Wisdom from Groups

Simon Bell

The project themes can be set out in short hand as follows: Online group work. How we get better at it, the need to do more, providing students with experience, innovation in method and reaching out by means of a story set out in a graphic novel.

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Longitudinal impact of visiting scholarships on the professional practice of scholars from China

Mark Endean Daphne Chang

Staff in academic and academic-related posts at other higher education institutions worldwide have been welcome at the OU since its founding in 1969.

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Online Team Investigations in Science (OTIS)

Mark Jones

Aims: By taking a comparative approach between three online team investigations in planetary science and astronomy, this project aims to investigate the factors that may be important in determining the effectiveness of such activities. The areas for investigation will be:

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Active learning in synchronous online tuition: increasing student interaction

Katrine Rogers

Highly Commended at the 3rd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2020 under the category – Enhancing the Student Experience.

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Development and evaluation of a software tool for automated Java specification marking

Anton Dil

Highly Commended at the 2nd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019 under the category - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

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Analytics for tracking student engagement

Christine Gardner

Although there has been much research in the area of data analytics in recent years (e.g. Shum and Ferguson 2012), there are questions regarding which analytic methodologies can be most effective in informing higher education teaching and learning practices (Gibson and de Freitas, 2016).

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Using Student Analytics with tutors to increase retention

Katie Chicot

Highly Commended at the 2nd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

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Developing a sense of community through cross‐level engagement between staff and students in creative industries subjects

Nicole Lotz

The overall project set out to pilot and evaluate innovative programme level blended engagement events that aim to create a community of learners across a qualification.

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