Too many forums?
We had an informal get together yesterday with the Research ‘arm’ of the OpenLearn project – basically to see how we (as in the developers and other member of the OL team) can be using the OpenLearn sites ourselves, essentially with the view to encouraging other users to participate more in the site.
One thing we noticed was that there seemed to be too many forums on the site (Steve has written about this on his blog). My feeling is that learning journals aren’t a good substitute for forums – they each serve different purposes – and that we should focus on just reducing the number of forums and making them more easily accessible (they can be a bit tricky to find, even though there are so many!)
