The materials arrived on Friday evening (9 January '15).
The following morning I identified an area in my home suitable enough to be able to store the equipment and textbooks for the next ten months and also be 'close to hand' to the study area. which it is. Then, I brought all of the set books across to join the workstation and now everything was to hand and in one place.
On Tuesday I read the introductory letters from the Dean and other advice notes from the OU. I then got stuck into the learning materials. Once they were organised I set about the very first task that I decided to do as a priority and that was to make the physical changes required in the Amendments and Clarifications (A&C).
The A&C had to be spread across two evening sessions which would have taken an unbelieveable one whole day to implement.
On Thursday (15 January '15) I decided to tackle the 'Online' learning facility that the O.U present. Over the next two sessions I will continue to familiarise myself with its function (both theoretically and practically)
The following day I tackled the first two parts of the Assignment Booklet and the first two parts of the Study Companion (the third being for online users which I covered accidentally earlier)
"This time around I feel totally in control. This is vital for me to be able to continue studying this course. This post module statement is early but to me it is 'as important' a time than the EMA will be. Its going really well."
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I studied 'Arts past and present' module along side Social Sciences. I am now in the process of studying my forth module. I can honestly say that although it was a level 1 module because it covers, if I remember correctly, seven different areas, I found it harder than the other modules I have studied as they tended followed one area of study.
My favourite was the study of Cleopatra, I found that each time I thought that I had come to grips with the philosophy chapter, it managed to elude me.
Good Luck.