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Tita Beaven

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Member since : May-01-2008 (Verified)
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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.

Comments Posted

Tita Beaven 1 year ago
At the moment OpenLearn is not very good with the highly interactive materials that we produce for some courses, such as language courses (and I suspect things like maths too). It is not a platform that does justice to the quality of some of our materials, so even for "marketing" it is not necessarily a great tool...