I have read all of the blocks up to week 6, which means that I am up to 11th November - so still managing 16 days ahead. It is not going well, though as the course text is extremely lightweight and I am not sure that anything is properly explained - at least as you would expect from a level 3 course. It was a long time ago but when I did the level 3 in Telecommunication Systems, the mathematics - integral calculus mostly - was extremely testing. There is nothing like that it this course. Mind you, I feel a bit the same about TM351. The results that people got in that course, to me, seem to indicate that the material wasn't deep enough so everything lived or died by the report quality.
Anyway, I am concerned about the first TMA as, so far, I can't even begin to think how I can answer these questions. I can't see that they have given me enough that is of sufficient depth for me to get anything like a good answer. Still, I have some time and there are some tutorials coming up that could help me.
TM470 has been interesting. They were supposed to open the web site on the 18th October so that we could get all the information that we needed to design a project. It didn't actually open until 20th October. At that point I filled in a lightweight form asking me about the previous courses that were to be the basis of my project. They gave you some courses to choose from but, amazingly, TM351 wasn't amongst them so I had to go for the "Other" option. Do they not know what is going on in their faculty? Anyway, I filled it in, thought about it and then filled it in again. It was all a waste of time as they have now withdrawn the web site telling us that:
"The TM470 module website was opened in error before some important content was changed. It has therefore been closed to avoid further confusion and to allow those changes to take place".
What is even stranger is the next sentence: " If you have already submitted your project registration form then we ask that you please resubmit this when the site is reopened in mid-November.".
So did someone delete a directory or something?
We now wait until it opens again. Let's hope that I can get a pass in TMA 01.
TM352 - Struggling with TMA 01
I have read all of the blocks up to week 6, which means that I am up to 11th November - so still managing 16 days ahead. It is not going well, though as the course text is extremely lightweight and I am not sure that anything is properly explained - at least as you would expect from a level 3 course. It was a long time ago but when I did the level 3 in Telecommunication Systems, the mathematics - integral calculus mostly - was extremely testing. There is nothing like that it this course. Mind you, I feel a bit the same about TM351. The results that people got in that course, to me, seem to indicate that the material wasn't deep enough so everything lived or died by the report quality.
Anyway, I am concerned about the first TMA as, so far, I can't even begin to think how I can answer these questions. I can't see that they have given me enough that is of sufficient depth for me to get anything like a good answer. Still, I have some time and there are some tutorials coming up that could help me.
TM470 has been interesting. They were supposed to open the web site on the 18th October so that we could get all the information that we needed to design a project. It didn't actually open until 20th October. At that point I filled in a lightweight form asking me about the previous courses that were to be the basis of my project. They gave you some courses to choose from but, amazingly, TM351 wasn't amongst them so I had to go for the "Other" option. Do they not know what is going on in their faculty? Anyway, I filled it in, thought about it and then filled it in again. It was all a waste of time as they have now withdrawn the web site telling us that:
"The TM470 module website was opened in error before some important content was changed. It has therefore been closed to avoid further confusion and to allow those changes to take place".
What is even stranger is the next sentence: " If you have already submitted your project registration form then we ask that you please resubmit this when the site is reopened in mid-November.".
So did someone delete a directory or something?
We now wait until it opens again. Let's hope that I can get a pass in TMA 01.