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...
Sometimes difficult concepts were explained in written form and it might have been better to have a YouTube lecture on what was required so the learning wasn’t always text based.
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We’re including more video and audio-based resources in our modules, especially those modules currently being produced.
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You said...
The KYN238 is not easy to navigate.
We did...
The university is creating additional support to navigate the module.
Nursing
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You said...
You would have preferred tutorials to tutor group forum activities on KYN238.
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The university is creating four tutorials for KYN238.
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You said...
The concept of research on K(YN)316 is not clear
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The university is amending the module resources to clarify the concept of research.
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You said...
That across a number of modules that workload was high.
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Although some issues are outside our control and are employer driven – for example in the time employers expect to support students on the Foundation Degree or the pre-registration nursing programme (often 2 years and 4 years accordingly); we have and continue to work to reduce the study intensity in the content of the nursing practice modules of K(YN)117 & KYN237. As students you should feel the impact of this quickly however we recognise that being a student and a health care worker together is a massive undertaking - but one that is well justified when you reach the end of your qualification and can seek opportunities for career development.
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You said...
You would like more help in finding specific module information available on the website.
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The availability of module information on the website is managed by the Marketing department and we are continuing to currently working with them to improve the amount of advice and guidance available to Open degree students.
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You said...
You would like more notice about future modules when planning your qualification.
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The availability of information about new modules is the responsibility of Faculties and the Marketing department, however we are aware that this information would be very valuable to Open degree students in planning their qualification. We are continuing to explore will therefore raise this with relevant parts of the university to see whether module information could be made available earlier (and before registration opens).
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You said...
You would like online interactive pathways/maps showing the different routes to particular qualifications, in order to help you choose your modules.
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We have been developeding an online qualification planning template tool which will can help enable students to plan their qualification at all stages of their Open degree. This is available on the Open qualifications website. We are hoping to make this available to students in early 2017. There are limitations to this tool in that it cannot currently be developed to automatically generate a list of available modules for students to choose from and incorporated into the module registration process. However, this is something that we will continue to discuss with relevant university departments to see if there are any opportunities for this to be developed further.we hope that this is something the university will introduce in due course.
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You said...
You are dissatisfied with the lack of printed material, chiefly textbooks, in modules that are fully or predominantly presented online.
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We acknowledge the practical value of printed books for a significant fraction of our learners, while embracing the enormous opportunities digital and online material affords for pedagogy, ease of use, topicality and flexibility. Going forward we are investigating how to bring you the best of both worlds, where some good-quality printed material is deployed in support of electronic resources. The balance between these media may be different for different modules, and whilst it is unlikely that the learning resources will become available in full in both formats we pledge that we are not abandoning books for good.
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You said...
There is lack of practical experience via laboratory schools in the curriculum.
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We have added to and improved our OpenScience Laboratory assets, and we are confident that these will become a new benchmark for teaching practical skills at a distance. We are also taking part in a trial opening up the OpenPlus lab schools (at level 1) to Stage 1 students, to assess feasibility for rolling this out more widely.
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