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...
Our modules/qualifications are not always relevant to your career development and aspirations.
We did...
We held a consultation forum on the role of skill development and study motivation in Arts & Humanities to better understand our student body and its needs. We are in contact with the OU Students Association to facilitate a focus group that will develop principles and models arising from this forum for use in modules and qualifications. This work will feed directly into the production of A111, the core introductory Level 1 module for all A&H qualifications, which will be available to study from October 2019. As an interim measure, updates have been made in consultation with the OU’s careers service to the employability pages on the Arts & Humanities qualification pages, highlighting tools and information specific to our students. These will be available to students by October 2018.
Arts and Humanities
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Sometimes tutorial organisation and delivery was a major impediment to the study experience.
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Module teams revised tutorial plans for the October (17J) presentation in response to specific concerns about the frequency and mode of tuition, seeking to maximise opportunities for students to access tutorials. The University’s response to last year’s organisational problems meant that booking systems were more reliable.
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The online start of Investigating the social world (DD103) is hard to get to grips with.
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There will be online induction sessions for new students and a new hard-copy book to accompany the module start.
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You said...
Qualification websites are not fit for purpose.
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New and revamped qualification sites will be ready for use from Autumn 2018.
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You said...
The workload on International development: making sense of a changing world (TD223) is too high and we don’t feel fully prepared for the exam.
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TMA06 has been replaced with formative examination preparation and the number of exam questions have been reduced in the exam paper. A welcome video has been produced and there are new audios to better guide students through the workload on the module.
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You wanted more and earlier tutorial support.
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We have added more tutorial events to support particular activities
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You said...
You wanted more support for completing new kinds of assessment tasks.
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We have developed new resources explaining how to approach unfamiliar assessment tasks.
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Investigating psychology (DE300) had specialist markers for different assignments, reflecting their areas of expertise but, you told us that you preferred having one tutor throughout the module allowing you to build a relationship and ensuring a consistent approach to the feedback you receive.
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We have rearranged the assessment strategy so that each student’s allocated tutor marks and feeds back on their TMAs.
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Investigating psychology (DE300) offered day schools but no other face-to-face tutorials and you told us that you missed face-to-face tutorials.
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We have added face-to-face tutorials in venues across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Each tutorial also has an alternative one hour online tutorial for students who cannot attend the face to face event.
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You said...
The purpose of the forums on Investigating psychology (DE300) was not clearly defined.
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We have rearranged the forums so that issues relating to the experimental projects that students conduct are dealt with in one forum, and issues concerning survey projects are dealt with in another.
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