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The first human biology assignment
Compared to the Child Development course, the Human Biology one is moving along at what almost seems like a snails pace in comparison which probably is indicative of how over the top the workload was on the Child Development course. The first tutoria...
Why did ED209 seem such a dreadful course for so many people?
Throughout the course everyone seemed to be saying that there was “an awful lot of course” in ED209 but I found that I really didn’t notice that so much until the time came for revision. Since it’s a research led course you ne...
Choosing to learn about yourself
One of the advantages of the Open University is that you can do any of the level one courses without any prior knowledge. Surprisingly perhaps there are a whole heap of essentially medical courses within that level one range. For instance if you̵...
How many hours a week does an Open University course REALLY take?
According to the Open University it’s 16 hours a week for a 60 pointer and 8 hours for a 30 points but those hours include not only the actual course work but also things like course administration, looking at forums, etc. which is a LOT more t...
‘Tis time to be thinking about the next Open University course yet again
Although I just finished the Child Development (ED209) on Wednesday and I’m currently doing Human Biology (SK277) which started in early October, it’s actually time for me to be thinking about the next course yet again. You might think th...
ED209: the final 24 hours of revision time
This time tomorrow I’ll be having my very first look at the exam paper. Today it’s time for last minute skimming over of the material that I didn’t quite get around to learning properly up to now… There’s the TMA questio...
