Foreign Perspectives

I’ve been plugging away with the language courses from the OU for, it seems like, forever now so I’m finding it a bit of a jolt to get into the way that their psychology course works.

Since it is psychology the education psychologists have obviously had their hand in with the course design. Thus you get a small guidebook to the course which leads you through the various components that make up the course and is as a side-line also the course workbook.

Whilst I know that the business of having everything in separate books is to draw you into the course as a participant, at the moment it’s a bit of a nuisance having to go from that course guide, to the course text, back to the guide and then off to the methods book before getting to the audiovisual component (which isn’t as well integrated as it was on the languages courses). Personally, I’d prefer one book to carry around but, like I say, it’s designed to get you drawn into the course.

At the moment I’m a little bit ahead of my own schedule (one month ahead of the official one) but I’d say that’s likely to change during the week of the move. I’m also running at around the same speed through the course as I did with the English one last year which, at the moment, means about 10 pages of reading at a stretch before my brain overloads.