You Said, We Did
How your voice has made a difference
This page provides an opportunity to see the valuable feedback received from students across a wide range of communication channels, and to see what the OU has done in response.
Please note this video is now a couple of years old so some people no longer have the same title. The current Students Association leadership can be seen on their website.
Choose a topic from the drop-down list below to see how students can have an impact on their university experience and be empowered to help shape the University. Next time you are asked to give your opinion, you know that the OU is taking this feedback seriously and will respond.
You said...
Adobe Connect sessions cannot exactly replicate face-to-face events, so content and delivery sometimes need to be considered differently.
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Several projects on this subject are currently underway within the school. These are looking at issues such as the accessibility of online learning events for students with disabilities and what kinds of teaching work on Adobe Connect. The results will be used to inform teaching practise across the Arts and Humanities curriculum. Additional training for effective online teaching is also being put in place for our Associate Lecturers.
Arts and Humanities
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The input of module authors, in addition to Associate Lecturers is valued.
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Module teams have been encouraged to experiment with ways to involve module authors in direct teaching. The results will be shared so that good practice can be spread across the Arts and Humanities curriculum.
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There is not enough discipline-specific choice at Level 1
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From autumn 2020, two new modules will replace A105 (the current second part of level 1). Each will relate to just four disciplines rather than eight, and by the end of each module, students will be working solely in the discipline they intend to study at level 2.
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Markers display different attitudes towards the use of non-module materials in assignments.
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Module teams have been asked to clarify expectations on this issue in future guidance notes for students and tutors.
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You would like us to be more positive about the fact that you are choosing to study full time.
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We are really supportive of you studying full time and are sorry if our concern that you know how much study will be involved has come across as being negative. We have already fed this back to relevant areas and a member of the school sits on the University group looking at how we support students who study full time with us. We will be representing your views.
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You said...
You would like to see examples of the assignments that you are being asked to submit.
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We will work with colleagues across the school and try to get this in place for 2020
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A lack of consistency in some areas of modules, such as the use of titles or a 5% 'buffer' is really confusing and unnecessary.
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We agree. We will be reviewing all modules for 2020
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You said...
There are some things that we could do to help you as 'full time' students including. Having 1 tutor for both TMAs Having an extra 'support' tutor, if studying FT Spacing the TMAs and EMAs further apart Joint study calendar.
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We have worked to set up forums for students studying full time but need to ensure that this is consistent across the school. We will do what we can regarding the other ideas but would need some OU wide changes to address some. We have represented your views at OU level group exploring this. We will also be sharing the hints and tips for full time study that students shared with new students studying full time.
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It would be good if we could switch more easily between study routes on some qualifications.
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We have added a new Broad Engineering route to the BEng and MEng, which contains few restrictions on module choice within the engineering subject area. We have also reformed our Design and Innovation degree to have two routes (broadly arts and technical) rather than four more narrowly defined ones .
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You said...
We would like to have the Women in Engineering Conference in a more central location.
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We hosted the conference in 2019 at Aston University Conference Centre, rather than Walton Hall and will do so again in 2020. We have also opened the conference up for attendance by male as well as female participation in engineering.
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