Technologies for STEM learning

Nationwide in Ghana there is pressure on practical STEM teaching and learning because of the scarcity of laboratory space, equipment and resources at Senior High School (SHS) (upper secondary) and university undergraduate (tertiary) level. Participation in STEM within Ghana and across Africa

The Modern Containerised Learning Interface and Delivery Infrastructure project developed and deployed a modern online learning environment and the required delivery infrastructure.

This scholarship work took place to identify what Open University (OU) approved technologies (Adobe Connect and Microsoft Office 365 applications) are being used by Associate Lecturers (ALs) and explore how and why they are being used for teaching and learning.

Highly Commended at the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2023.

TM351 Data management and analysis has used Jupyter (2019) notebooks for practical work from its inception in 2016 and this project investigated how the notebooks supported students' learning.

Pair programming promotes immediate, informal collaboration over coding activities. The driving developer writes the code and controls the keyboard and mouse; the navigating developer checks the code as it is written by the driver, and the developers swap their roles frequently.

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

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

This project provides one way to answer the need to close the feedback loop between OU tutors and campus-based teams, to develop a joint understanding of teaching and learning design challenges, and to put tutors as close as possible to the development of solutions.