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jinky32

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Member since : Apr-22-2008 (Verified)
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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.
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?

Comments Posted

jinky32 1 year ago
Hi Steph, great idea. i might drop alison a line :) good to see you here too. please pass the link around and get people involved.

p.s. jinky32 = stuart brown
jinky32 1 year ago
@Martin - good point. perhaps separating out potential courses would be best. you could then ask psychology students to vote only on potential psychology courses etc. There then might be a general area where you can vote on general courses that you might find interesting that do not relate to your current studies.

@Laura - yeah, good point too. Any votes would just be indicative of support, but i take you're point that they would just be indicative of what web-savvy users think. however surely this is the case with any type of feedback? If we ask students to participate in feedback via sesame we're just hearing from those who bother to read sesame, if we ask people to fill in a q/airre we're just hearing from people who feel happy sharing their opinions in this way. something like this would just form a small part of the overall picture
jinky32 1 year ago
There are details of the study on the Knowledge network http://kn.open.ac.uk/workspace.cfm?wpid=8516