Foreign Perspectives

The tutorials for S346 seem to be getting longer and longer as the course progresses.

Thanks to what seems to have been an overly difficult second assignment, the tutorial last week started off with going over a number of concepts that should have been quite familiar to those on the course. Well, they would have been quite familiar but one of the previous courses finished almost two years ago and the other one was, for me, just as long ago. All, thanks, of course, to the Open University withdrawing courses rather quickly and people having to do their courses in often quite peculiar sequences.

Anyway, that meant that a tutorial that should have lasted about an hour had over an hour of “revision” followed by another hour and a half covering what it was intended to cover. The students attending became more and more quiet as the session went on and whether any of those watching live took any of the final chunk in seems debateable. Even watching the recording was a test of endurance and I needed to break it up into several sessions.

I suspect that’s meant that a much larger number than usual are asking for more time to complete the third assignment. Still, at least there’s only one more after this before the final one for the course.

Oh, and there’s what seems likely to be yet another marathon session this evening!