OU response to your feedback at the April 2025 student consultation meetings

In April of this year, staff in the Open SU, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Students' Office (PVC-S), Learning and Design Services, OU in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Equality Diversity and Inclusion team, and staff working on AI wanted to hear your thoughts.

All staff involved have written a response to your feedback, which you can read in full on the Student Consultation VLE.

Here is a summary of what the OU has done with your feedback so far, and what they plan to do for each of the seven topics we had in the meetings:

1 AI digital assistant (AIDA) response
- They have revised guidance around AI and how it can be used as an assistive technology.
- They have used your ideas and concerns for AIDA into a current project to design and test an initial AIDA on two Open Learn courses.
2 Student Charter
- They have your feedback to design a new Student Charter that use themes as headings, in which the values sit beneath.
- They have ensure the use of Plain English/Cymraeg Clîr principles in writing the new Student Charter.
- The new Student Charter will launch in September 2025.
3 Turnitin
- They have updated guidance on Turnitin.
- They have introduced group academic integrity tutorials in WELS and FASS, and are working on setting them up in STEM and FBL.
- They have signposted students to the All My Own Work academic integrity course on Open Learn, and are creating a Turnitin Open Learn course.
4 Open SU
- They have shared your feedback with your Student Leadership Team at the Open SU.
- They will use your insights to draft position statements on Academic Student Experience and Student Support.
5 Making student support content easier to use
- They have shared your feedback with design teams at the OU to incoporate it into their design decisions.
6 Ireland higher education funding
- They will utilise your feedback when engaging with the Department for Economy's upcoming review on Higher Education funding.
7 Race Equality Charter
- They have extracted the key themes from your feedback to help inform the OU Race Equality Charter.