Open University in general

I've been doing Open University courses for a few years now, and it's something that I get a lot of people sending me questions about, so I thought I'd write a review about it to help answer some of the frequently asked questions. ===How do you study?=== You get sent course books that were written especially for your course and you study them when you choose. You get a calendar that says roughly how fast you should be studying, but as long as you do your assignments before they are due, you are free to study when you choose. You generally get tutor marked assignments throughout the course (though it always depends on the exact courses you ...  Read the complete review

Was charged a lot of money for a few books and a DVD and just felt like a number on a conveyor belt without any study support. I passed W100 the law foundation course without any problems. After that I wanted to pass W200 and W201 so that I could have a Diploma in English Law, but it felt as if they passed me for W200 so they could have the money, then created lots of problems to make it difficult to pass W201. Three years is a long time to give up so much spare time to study, but as I didn't have any problems passing the previous years, I thought that just one more year to give up my spare time would be worth it, but couldn't have imagined the problems that would be ...  Read the complete review

Having taken the science foundation course years ago, I was pleased with the OU as the tutor seemed to be passionate about teaching and encouraged the students. He had spent plenty of time to hand write feedback for the assignments. As I was encouraged from my previous experience, I decided to sign up for the law course and it was completely different. I think they only do the job as it gives them free access (with my money) to the legal data base for their work outside of the OU, that they would have to pay lots of money for otherwise. The course is quite expensive at nearly £2000 a year and there isn't the summer school that most other courses have. There's one ...  Read the complete review

Having recently completed a language course with the Open University I thought I'd share my experience of the OU with you. I'm going to try to keep the course information minimal however some of my info is specific to language courses and I will try to make this obvious. Having to spend my working week away from home I decided that I wanted to do something in the evenings to keep myself busy and hopefully meet some new people. I had a night class in mind however after some persuasion from my Godmother who has recently gained an OU degree I found myself requesting an OU prospectus... *The Prospectus* As the OU covers such a wide range of ...  Read the complete review

I want to say that I would like to give a negative review of the Open University. I have just studied an Openings Course with the Open university, and whilst it wasnt that bad, it wasn't exactly that great either. I think the Open university has the ethos of charging their students loads of money, and getting away with delivering very little, so as to maximise their revenue for the least work possible on their part! Their courses are not cheap. I am sure that at least in certain parts of the UK, where there is a good Further Education college, you could get a relevant course where you have the added benefit of very important interaction face to face ...  Read the complete review