With only 26 days left to go before the ED209 results are out (and it may be earlier if the experience of previous years OU results are to go by), I’ve started to have a look to see if there are any useful resources out on the Internet that might help me get a flavour for DD303 before the course books arrive. According to my OU homepage, this is due to be on the same day that the ED209 results are out on 18th December.
I don’t seem to have found that much, really. There are a small number of podcasts on consciousness taken from the course that the OU has posted in beta form, there’s a 10 hour module on attention on the OU’s OpenLearn site which has apparently been taken from DD303 and the course team’s recommendation to read Principles of Cognitive Psychology by Michael W. Eysenck before the course starts. Other than that, there’s not much else out there with the exception of a few blog posts and tweets from previous students, mostly about how much they were dreading the exam or that DD303 didn’t interest them as they didn’t like statistics.
I’m hoping that Erika Cox will be offering her excellent revision notes for sale again, but at the time of writing her site is still referencing the availability of notes for the 2009 presentation. Hopefully 2010 notes will be available after the course starts at the end of January.
My intention is to make a start on DD303 around Christmas, so that my usual practice of trying to get a draft of the first TMA completed in advance of tutorial one is achievable. I did that for ED209 last year and just about managed to cross the finish line for the course in time for the October exam. Life and work has this annoying habit of getting in the way of the OU!
Wow 26 days is scary: it doesn’t seem that long since you were doing the countdown to the exam!
I suspect that they’ll be out almost a week before that though as the signup deadline for 2010 courses is Dec 16th so Dec 18th for results doesn’t seem overly sensible. I know you can sign up before getting the results but I suspect ED209 is one course where there’s rather a large percentage expecting to be doing a resit so greater than normal reluctance in signing up before the results are out.