Access, Participation and Success

Accessibility of Jupyter Notebooks on M269

M269 Algorithms, data structures and computability is being rewritten and will include all teaching and assessment materials in Jupyter notebooks rather than the OU’s VLE interface.

Associate Lecturer Disability Champion scheme at the Open University (E&I-STEM)

The Disability Champion project was a pilot programme to support ALs in their teaching of students in design with disability flags given that the proportion of students within this group has been steadily rising over recent years.

Decolonising Computing: A Resource for Educators

Decolonising the curriculum (DTC) is a university-wide initiative within the broader decolonising the university (DTU) project overseen by the EDI Dean with mandate from the VC. The current focus of DTC work in the STEM faculty is on Level 1 modules in all schools.

Barriers and enablers to higher education: the experiences of disabled students from minority cultural backgrounds

This project will take an intersectional approach and examine the student experience from the combined perspectives of BAME and disability as many students fall into more than one of these categories: in 2019 there were 10,543 students registered in STEM of which 1,246 were BAME and 2,079 were re

Effective support for reflective writing: learning from improvers

This report focusses on an in‐depth study of 12 students identified as ‘improvers’ in Mathematics Education modules.

Evaluating the increase in student wellbeing brought about by informal online sessions and computer generated worked examples on a level 3 pure maths module

Issue: student well-being and anxiety. Accessibility of tutorial type resources.

Many students experiencing problems with abstract mathematics either already experience maths anxiety or develop it. They can also lack self-efficacy and mathematical resilience.

Understanding factors influencing BAME students’ achievements within Engineering and Innovation

Students from BAME groups appear to perform less well than their white counterparts across all modules in E&I.

Understanding the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic attainment gap at the OU by means of quantitative and qualitative data analytics

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

Exploring the extent of maths anxiety within the STEM Faculty at The Open University

Winner of the 6th Best Poster Competition at the 10th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 30 June -1 July 2021.

Understanding the mental health attainment gap in Design modules

Winner of the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2024.

Retention and attainment of students with a mental health disability on Design modules is poor compared to other qualifications in Engineering and Innovation, STEM.