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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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    Supporting Degree Apprenticeship students: Tutors’ and Students’ perspectives

  1. Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui

    2. Recently the UK government has initiated various initiatives and strategies to address the need for increased STEM skills in the workplace.

    October 2017 to September 2021

    An investigation into how STEM students use learning resources in different formats, and how this use develops over time

  2. Laura AlexanderAlexis Lansbury

    3. Winner of the 4th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2021 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

    An overall summary of our findings would be that:-

    November 2017 to February 2021

    Perceptions, Expectations and Experience of Group Tuition: towards a shared understanding amongst stakeholders (part II: the student perspective)

  3. Anne CampbellMark JonesAnne-Marie Gallen

    4. Winner of the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2023.

    May 2018 to January 2023

    Early start MU123

  4. Carol CalvertLuay Salman

    5. A flexible start programme was introduced in July- September 2018 for the MU123 18J presentation. There was a high take up from students with just under 200 students participating, which was 43% of those offered a place, and this meant that the programme was full to capacity.

    July 2018 to May 2020

    Usage of Early Alerts Indicators on two level 1 modules

  5. Carol CalvertAlison BromleyChris Hughes

    6. The Open University (UK) has developed two systems of predictive modelling to identify students at risk.

    November 2018 to December 2019

    Associate Lecturer Reflections on Student Perceptions of Usefulness of Level 1 Service Mathematics

  6. Andrew PotterGerry Golding

    7. Investigations into students’ attitudes toward mathematics learning is well documented in the literature. The student’s perception of the usefulness of his/her mathematical studies to his/her chosen degree pathway can affect retention rates, as well as progression in later STEM study.

    May 2019 to December 2021

    STEM ISSS - where are we now? Evaluating awareness, usage and effectiveness of individual student support sessions

  7. Fiona MoormanKaren New

    8. Our distance learning students study in isolation and are an increasingly diverse cohort, many with disabilities and balancing work, family and caring commitments alongside study workload, with many students opting to study at high intensity with potential overlap between J and B presentations.

    May 2019 to December 2021

    Evaluating student perspectives of different types of learning events provided on SDK228, a level 2 LHCS module

  8. Janette Wallace

    9. SDK228, Science of the mind: Investigating mental health was a level two interdisciplinary Life, Health and Chemical Science (LHCS) module that attracted students from a variety of backgrounds including health and natural sciences, health and social care, nursing, psychology and counselling.

    April 2019 to October 2021

    Summer Series of Journal Clubs: an opportunity to develop employability skills and a sense of community amongst students in secure environments

  9. Karen NewFiona MoormanHannah Gauci

    10. In keeping with the ethos ‘open to all’, The Open University (OU) has provided higher education opportunities to students in secure environments (SiSE) for over 40 years, currently reaching over 150 secure environments (Open University, 2020).

    June 2019 to January 2021

    Evaluating the level 1 engineering tutors resource

  10. Anne-Marie GallenClare Reger

    11. Reusability is a key concept for educators. For many of the associate lectures at the Open University, the group tuition policy has resulted in repetition of tutorial structure and delivery with ALs across clusters giving similar tutorials on the same topics at similar times.

    March 2019 to October 2019

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