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:
Innovative assessment
International curriculum delivery
Online/onscreen STEM practice
STEM engagement
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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Foroogh Hosseinzadeh Anne-Marie Gallen Helen Lockett Rafael Hidalgo
T272 is the first module in the undergraduate qualification that introduced the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Software, ANSYS, to provide a foundation for students to further develop their skills using this industry standard software in later modules. Following T272, ANSYS has been introduced in
May 2021 to January 2023
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. S
April 2022 to July 2023
Ann Grand
The AstrobiologyOU Directorate aspires to lead collaboratively; a relatively uncommon leadership practice in academia, and not one that organisations necessarily have the structures to deal with.
April 2022 to December 2022
Victoria Nicholas Paul Collier
Students frequently cite time pressure as a challenge to successful study.
August 2022 to August 2023
Victoria Pearson Linda Thomson Maria Velasco-Garcia
In every presentation of S111, there has been a percentage of students who remain registered until the end of the module but have had limited or even no engagement with the module content and assessment. In some cases, they may have never logged on to the VLE at all despite attempts from ALs and
April 2022 to December 2023
James Warren Georgy Holden
We think that we know our students, but do we fully understand their hopes the reality of their daily lives?
April 2022 to June 2023
Gemma Warriner Fiona Moorman Becca Whitehead
Many SPS and LHCS students reported anxiety concerning the 20J exams on module forums, and also in conversation with SST Advisors.
April 2022 to December 2023
Martin Braun
When the Covid pandemic affected education, universities around the globe had to move not only their content delivery online, but also their assessments.
April 2022 to December 2022
Janet Haresnape
This project aims to evaluate a planned programme of events which:
June 2022 to August 2022
Anne-Katrin Klehe
Retention on S217 (Physics: from classical to quantum ) is a problem, with 30-40% of student withdrawing over the course of the module. Initial analysis of historic data (15J to 21J) shows that nearly half of the official withdrawals happen before Christmas (wk 10/11 of the module).
November 2022 to October 2023
