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Evaluating the impact of a qualification based approach to student engagement and success in engineering study

  • Alec Goodyear
  • The main project question is focused on whether, and if so how, a whole qualification approach of designing and developing the various components of the recent BEng (Hons) (Q65) and MEng (M04) has had a positive impact on student success.

    May 2018 to August 2023

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

  • Laura AlexanderAlexis Lansbury
  • 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

    Supporting Degree Apprenticeship students: Tutors’ and Students’ perspectives

  • Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui
  • 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

    Piloting OU Analyse and the Student Probabilities Model on 12 STEM Modules

  • Carlton WoodSteve Walker
  • The eSTEeM project Piloting OU Analyse and the Student Probabilities Model on 12 STEM Modules was established in November 2017 and aimed to explore whether, and how, these two learning analytics tools, could contribute to one of the four priorities - the use of data and analytics -

    May 2017 to August 2019

    Assessment banking – useful break or deferred withdrawal? An investigation of the outcomes and experience for students who have assessment banked

  • Linda Robson
  • One of the options for students facing difficulties with their studies is to assessment bank their TMAs and take an extended break, with the intention of returning at the same point in the next presentation of their module.

    November 2017 to December 2023

    Developing a sense of community through cross‐level engagement between staff and students in creative industries subjects

  • Nicole Lotz
  • The overall project set out to pilot and evaluate innovative programme level blended engagement events that aim to create a community of learners across a qualification.

    November 2017 to June 2020

    Using Student Analytics with tutors to increase retention

  • Katie Chicot
  • Highly Commended at the 2nd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2019 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

    November 2017 to August 2018

    Analytics for tracking student engagement

  • Christine Gardner
  • Although there has been much research in the area of data analytics in recent years (e.g. Shum and Ferguson 2012), there are questions regarding which analytic methodologies can be most effective in informing higher education teaching and learning practices (Gibson and de Freitas, 2016).

    October 2017 to February 2021

    Active learning in synchronous online tuition: increasing student interaction

  • Katrine Rogers
  • Highly Commended at the 3rd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2020 under the category – Enhancing the Student Experience.

    September 2017 to July 2019

    Wisdom from Groups

  • Simon Bell
  • The project themes can be set out in short hand as follows: Online group work. How we get better at it, the need to do more, providing students with experience, innovation in method and reaching out by means of a story set out in a graphic novel.

    October 2017 to March 2019

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