Foreign Perspectives

Once I’d finally bitten the bullet and signed up for the child development course the first difference was in the amount of pre-course website that appeared.

For six years I’d been plugging away with language courses and this was the first proper one that I’d done with the OU outside that area. With those there’s not really a whole of pre-course information that you get other than simple things like the prospectus and whatever any recommended texts there might be (usually none).

However, the psychology people are a whole different bunch of people. On the OU course record page there isn’t really a whole lot on at the moment aside from the scary entry that the course material was mailed last Friday, just two days after I signed up. Outside the OU though there’s a whole mountain of material ranging from information about study guides and intensive revision sessions through to one brave person who’s put most of her assignments online. The scariest of all is definitely that first TMA though I find that most assignments look pretty scary before you start them.

What’s clear from all that’s around is that the psychology people treat the topic very seriously, or at least those that have anything to say certainly seem to.