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Could this be used as an internal mechanism to gather ideas from staff on how we respond to the ELQ situation - suggestions on how we 'tighten our belts' and 'sweat our assets'? For example, unnecessary bureacracy could be questioned (and responded to) and suggestions could be built on and refined. My first suggestion would be to get rid of the water coolers!
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what with all the hoo ha about green projects at the moment I thought it may be a good idea to change the bus-shuttle to an electric one - this would reduce overall cost for the OU and give possible much needed good publicity for the ou - as the forward thinking market leaders we are.
I appreciate this would be an expensive venture - but we can all agree on the benefits
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so we all accept that the ou is moving to be more responsive to what the market wants in terms of course products.
how about we get tutors to `pitch' their course ideas to students on the new sesame site? the most popular potential courses will float to the top (digg-style) and provide some decent evidence for potential market.
Ideascale would also enable students to give us their own thoughts on what courses they would like to see the ou provide.
what more could we want?
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The OU Mac discussion list shows that there's a dedicated group of users out there. Should the OU provide more support?
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Should the Open University be supporting users who use open source software such as GNU/Linux.
Should the Open University be using open source software itself, where possible?
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like email but on the phone, under 160 characters.
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Three things:
1) The OU is building an online version of Sesame magazine. This will be an online community space for current students and alumni.
2) I always hear the stat that the OU has over 2 million alumni
3) The OU is 40 years old this year.
Should we try and tie these three things together? Should we make a push to reach as many of the people who have studied with the OU to reconnect with us? We could connect old course friends (old course teams), ask for people's memories or studying with the OU, show them how the courses they studied look now, and generally build up a great community in the new Sesame site.
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Powerleague "allows people to cast votes, individually, in which they choose between two competing people, ideas or things. In a discussion on climate change, for example, they could vote for which they thought was the bigger cause of global warming: aeroplane emissions or volcanic activity — discuss!
Each person chooses repeatedly from random pairs. By repeatedly casting votes, participants create a league, ranked in order of the most powerful, important, popular or influential. The results are often unexpected — participants are surprised to see how their peers voted — and a good starting point for discussion."
I'm interested to see if it can help course teams make decisions about course production, or at least challenge some of our ideas and start a debate. It might also be a good way for ALs and students to be able to have a say about new courses/remakes at the design stage.
Here's the link: http://www.powerleague.org.uk
If you sign up to Powerleague and would like to see a league "I created earlier", you can go to: http://www.powerleague.org.uk/league/240
It's just an initial idea, and if you don't know much about our language courses it might be a bit difficult to vote, but it'll give you an idea. If it looks promising we will run it again, this time with the relevant stakeholders.
You will need a password to access it. The password is: remakes
Let me know what you think.
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The OpenLearn website ( http://openlearn.open.ac.uk ) makes some materials from current and previous courses available for free. Should the OU make all its material freely available in this way?
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At the moment OU courses start on specific dates once or twice a year. If you just miss a course start date you may have to wait up to a year to study it.
I think it would be easier if I could start to take a course whenever I wanted to...
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