The 13th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2024: Sharing Scholarship and Best Practice – Implementing What Works

Dates: 

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 09:00 to Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 16:00

Location

Walton Hall and via MS Teams

Contact

eSTEeM

The programme is a mix of short orals, workshops, poster presentations and, new for 2024, teaching innovations talks all showcasing scholarship work conducted by STEM colleagues.

We are delighted to announce a keynote presentation by Dilly Fung, Emerita Professor in Practice at LSE, who will discuss how scholarship practitioners working in higher education can orientate their own investigations to benefit students, maximise their own strengths and opportunities, and enhance the future of development of the university. Day two will feature a workshop focusing on how scholarship projects can have influence on a wider sphere at school, faculty and university level, and consider the obstacles and challenges that arise with implementing what works.

We will be presenting the annual eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year awards, which will celebrate excellence in eSTEeM projects over the past year. Conference delegates will also be invited to vote for the best poster presentation.

All OU staff are welcome to attend in person and/or via MS Teams. 

Online attendees

For OU colleagues attending the conference remotely, please click the link to the eSTEeM & Co website below under 'Related Resources' to find the MS Teams links for each session. You will also find links to the poster recordings and details of how to vote on the site. Please note that sign-in using your OU credentials is required.

#eSTEeMConf24

PowerPoint Presentations

Day One

Keynote Presentation

Dilly Fung - Strength-based scholarship and ‘good’ education: Developing ourselves and the university Emerita Professor in Practice, LSE

Parallel Session A

Andrea Patel, Chris Corcoran, Stephen Jones, Ralph Burns and Sean Starbuck - Empowering the Student Learning Experience through Support Network Mapping: an active learning workshop

Parallel Session B

Heather Fraser, Janet Haresnape, Hanne Bown, David Ruiz and Hannah Gandy - Online enrichment workshops: how these can help you engage and enrich your students’ experiences

Parallel Session C

Zoe Tompkins, Kate Feliciello and Amaninder Singh - STEM Decolonisation in practice

Parallel Session D

Charlotte Lighter and Cathy Smith - Learning from improvers: Lessons for assessment (an interactive workshop)

Parallel Session E

Louise MacBrayne and Zoë Chapman - Is the cost of home experiments a potential barrier to learning?

Jo Smedley, Hedieh Jazaeri, Alice Moncaster, Silvia Varagnolo and Fiona Gleed - Improving and evaluating inclusivity in group project work for distance-learning engineering students

Magnus Ramage, Zoe Tompkins and Clem Herman - Understanding and amplifying student perspectives on decolonising the computing curriculum

Parallel Session F

Kay Bromley, Joan Jackson, Jill Shaw and Mark Slaymaker - Evaluating and enhancing student recognition of employability skills development – examples from postgraduate project management

Vera Hale, Nicole Lotz, Georgy Holden and Derek Jones - Designathon: creative online career and employability development

Alan Cayless and Arabella Nock - Learning Logs: Employability skills for remote experiments

Parallel Session G

Anne-Katrin Klehe - Aiming for a sense of community in a level 2 Physics module and its correlation with retention

Cath Brown and Sue Pawley - A timed, marked mock examination to enhance student success

Parallel Session H

Ruth Neal, Kaustubh Adhihari and Kellee Patterson - Assessment and feedback on the introduction of group work on M140

Trevor Collins, James Smith, Victoria Nicholas and Alexis Peters - A strategic approach to innovation in the curriculum

Anthony Johnston, Karen Kear, Helen Donelan, Jon Rosewell and Kieron Sheehy - Synchronous Online tutorials: analysis to identify groupings or types of student

Teaching Innovation Talks

Fiona Gleed and Claudia Eckert - Building networks for female engineering students

Phil Hackett - Tutor recruitment and retention on M269

Sarah Daniell, Lorraine Waters, Katja Rietdorf, Heather Fraser, Patrizia Paci and Seth Racey - Exploring the impact of VR tutorials on S296, Cell and molecular biology

Silvia Bergamini and Calum MacCormick - Quantum computing as a teaching resource for level 3 quantum Physics

Tom Argles and Philip Wheeler - Teaching Geographic Information Systems (GIS) supercharged by ArcGIS Online

Jotham Gaudoin - Teaching innovations in Mathematics and Statistics

Day Two

Workshop: Opportunities and Challenges of Implementing What Works 

Sue Pawley, Vic Nicholas and Daphne Chang - Conference journal launch, workshop introduction and scene setting, impact tracking tool launch 

Parallel Session I

Louise MacBrayne, Jennie Bellamy, Angela Richards and Elaine McPherson - Closing the awarding gap: listening to our Black students

Janette Wallace and Zoë Chapman - Initial findings when evaluating the role and impact of a student intern in supporting the development of the LHCS student community and sense of belonging

Nicole Lotz, Vera Hale, Cindy Darbandi and Ida Rodrigues - Virtual interns: co-designing and decolonising curriculum in distance design education

Cath Brown and Victoria Brown - Enhanced student support on MST124 – Personal Tutor scheme

Parallel Session J

Martin Braun, Anita Dawes, Sally Jordan, Carlton Wood, Olga Andrianova, Maria Nita, Georgina Gough, Kathleen Calder, Paul Astles, Rosie Meade, Teresa Cox and Anna Elliott - Developing reflective assessment tasks to engage physics students with the key sustainability competencies

David McDade, Phil Hackett and Anthony Johnston - To evaluate the effectiveness of focused staff training in recruitment on specialised modules

Sarah Davies, Fiona Aiken, Elaine McPherson, Volker Patent, Maria Townsend, Debra Croft, Harriet Marshall, Joanna Shelton and Kate Lister - Ecoanxiety and environmental education: stories, conversations, actions

Fiona Moorman, Gemma Warriner and Becca Whitehead - Can we reduce anxiety of students sitting online exams? Sharing best practice between SPS and LHCS

Parallel Session K

Soraya Kouadri Mostefaoui and Oli Howson - How useful are the Are You Ready for Your Studies Quizzes?

Jonathan Nylk and Andy Diament - Understanding student perceptions and engagement for formative assessment: A study of interactive online quizzes

Janette Wallace and Allan Mooney - The findings and challenges of the cross-faculty scholarship monitoring project

Parallel Session L

Cath Brown, Sue Pawley and Claudi Thomas - Rapid response TMA support forums

Colin Blundell - An investigation into running taster tutorials within prisons for non-OU students and an evaluation of how we can better help Students in Secure Environments (SiSE) generally

Fiona Aiken and Christopher Hutton - Evaluation and improvement of print pack use for Earth and Environmental Science Students

Parallel Session M

Jo Sessford - Which factors are correlated with undergraduate engineering distance learning students’ expectations of ethical issues?

Lorraine Waters, Rachel McMullan and Heather Fraser - Online journal club in S285: does this help students develop employability skills?

Poster Presentations

Visit our YouTube Channel to view the recorded poster presentations.

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