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So even if I don't submit my final assessment, I have still passed one module with 59.64%. So maybe I can chill a teeny bit about getting this final assignment right.
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I fucking hate that Open University have made me hate education when I used to love it - specifically when it was socially not ok to enjoy it. I fucking loved the academic side of school and college, and the teeny amount of uni I did way back.
But have they really made me hate "education"?! I think what they are doing is not by definition education...
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Fuck it, I've submitted my assignment. It's trash and probably not what they want, but it is not gonna matter how many times I re-read their instructions and ask other people about them, because the problem is the instructions.
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Today on my #OpenUniversity tutorial, "You MAY be asked to look at primary sources in higher levels."
Apparently at level 3 you do have to do "some."
I've said it before and I will say it again; this isn't a university, this is a playgroup.
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omfg, for the final assignment of this year you are still explicitly not allowed any external sources. Only the module materials, i.e. the books and website info they provide. No actual studies.
How is this possibly a uni degree?
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very cool article about us in the #canary with a very cool video from us about the #OUPSG activism disrupting careers events at #BAE & #Cisco who are 2 #WeaponsManufacturers heavily involved in #genocide & dominating the #OpenUniversity, privatising it effectively from the inside out.
there's links in the article encouraging you to join in our actions & support us.the #OU is the biggest online university on the planet, & we're probably the smallest protest group against #warcrimes & genocide so your help is very much appreciated!
#press #IndependentMedia #news #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04/18/open-university-students-protests/
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OU receives grant to unite experts to protect the Moon through sustainable governance
#UK
#UnitedKingdom
#OpenUniversity
#Project
#Moon
#LunarSustainability
#STEAM
#Sciece
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Has anyone here done a psychology Masters or Doctorate with the #OpenUniversity recently?
I'm wondering if their postgrad programmes are better than their undergrad, and thus whether it's worth seeing if I can switch to a postgrad with them.
Have sent off applications to London & Essex for undergrad too.
Brunel they won't accept me for the conversion MsC as they require an undergrad degree. But she said that there are Psychology Masters courses who would accept me without a degree.
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so it wasn't great but in good news she went through some feedback with me and confirmed my "this is bullshit" opinion of it.
So I have just emailed my tutor with basically a take down of their feedback and a bunch of questions given my next assignment for that module is the same thing so I need to know WTF they are marking for. -
I am forcing myself through this absolute hellscape of an #OpenUniversity assignment.
Tutor replied to my email without answering the question I asked in it.
My student mentor says the assignment and info around it is awful.
My friends say the same.
Someone who took the same module before said the same and that they have had complaints about it.And yet here we are...
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Goal for today to, hopefully, get me closer to finishing this assignment without crushing me with stress:
- write methods section (which is just a copy paste thing basically).
- write discussion section (which should help me feel better cos I can tear down how bad and pointless this study is).Will have to wait for a reply from someone after the weekend on what the rationale for doing a study that's been done better in all ways multiple times is...
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Uni continues to be intensely distressing, not because the academic work is hard but because I am consistently up against everything being designed for NTs.
This assignment is to write a research report, something I did at GSCE with zero problems. I even did the fucking experiment myself for GCSE!
But for this they have drip fed incomplete info, hidden some essential info in a "recap" section, and expect us to reverse engineer a report from the results data. -
oooh I am studying synaesthesia for uni this week and it is super fun and I love brains so much!
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I have just under 2 weeks of steroids - I'm gonna see if I can get caught up on uni totally in those 2 weeks rather than the month and a bit I've been given, being as my body and brain both work at the moment. Which is a science created miracle!
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BOOM! Assignment done (not submitted yet, I'm gonna re-read it again later) complete with rant about Queerphobia in psychological research.
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Right, today is hopefully a power through 1-2 weeks of uni day as I play catch up.
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Sharing because I am humbled, honoured, proud, and galvanised - via 100% derived status - to work alongside the incredible Professor Kristina Hultgren at the #OpenUniversity on upholding #AcademicFreedom in #HigherEducation, which is being increasingly threatened.
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Managed 400 messy words laying down via speech to text but can't sit up long enough to edit them into something coherent and closer to the 600 limit
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And now this:
"despite affirming the term’s historical accuracy, the OU agreed to “not use the term ‘ancient Palestine’ in any future course materials”, and to “explain and contextualise its use in existing materials for current learners”."
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consider signing this #petition set up by one of my #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 activist student pals who are holding the #OpenUniversity to account for their active complicity in the #genocides their 'partners' are waging with our tuition fees. #BAE #Cisco #Alphabet #Google #Microsoft & others.
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consider signing this #petition set up by one of my #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 activist student pals who are holding the #OpenUniversity to account for their active complicity in the #genocides their 'partners' are waging with our tuition fees. #BAE #Cisco #Alphabet #Google #Microsoft & others.
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consider signing this #petition set up by one of my #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 activist student pals who are holding the #OpenUniversity to account for their active complicity in the #genocides their 'partners' are waging with our tuition fees. #BAE #Cisco #Alphabet #Google #Microsoft & others.
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consider signing this #petition set up by one of my #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 activist student pals who are holding the #OpenUniversity to account for their active complicity in the #genocides their 'partners' are waging with our tuition fees. #BAE #Cisco #Alphabet #Google #Microsoft & others.
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consider signing this #petition set up by one of my #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 activist student pals who are holding the #OpenUniversity to account for their active complicity in the #genocides their 'partners' are waging with our tuition fees. #BAE #Cisco #Alphabet #Google #Microsoft & others.
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The Open Letter to #OpenUniversity Vice-Chancellor has reached 404 signatures since 12/02/26.
It's been signed by Profs Judith Butler, Ilan Pappé, Avi Shlaim, Nur Masalha, Rashid Khalidi, @VaroufakisDE, et al.
Pls read, share, sign, if you can🙏
#AcademicFreedom
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQkTPnYNKc-kpm9lLTzdw-TAcRm75o57VGziPimNEeNmGOoxH_mwixhcGvDwwMQbUmuzbfoEpnszGmT/pub -
@Geri Please consider sharing and signing this #OpenLetter to the #OpenUniversity:
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The OUPSG (#OpenUniversity #Palestine Solidarity Group https://oupalestinesolidarity.org/) has launched an Open Letter to its VC requesting a full retraction of commitments made to an Israeli lobby group (aka foreign pressure on #AcademicFreedom).
Please read, sign & share 🇵🇸
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I'm seriously thinking about quitting uni at the end of this year and abandoning my quest to become a therapist.
Higher education feels so inaccessible to me, even with support.
I am melting down at every assignment because it's unclear what they actually want, or they put in rules that don't make any sense.
I feel pretty hopeless about it all at the moment.
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I'm seriously thinking about quitting uni at the end of this year and abandoning my quest to become a therapist.
Higher education feels so inaccessible to me, even with support.
I am melting down at every assignment because it's unclear what they actually want, or they put in rules that don't make any sense.
I feel pretty hopeless about it all at the moment.
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I'm seriously thinking about quitting uni at the end of this year and abandoning my quest to become a therapist.
Higher education feels so inaccessible to me, even with support.
I am melting down at every assignment because it's unclear what they actually want, or they put in rules that don't make any sense.
I feel pretty hopeless about it all at the moment.
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I'm seriously thinking about quitting uni at the end of this year and abandoning my quest to become a therapist.
Higher education feels so inaccessible to me, even with support.
I am melting down at every assignment because it's unclear what they actually want, or they put in rules that don't make any sense.
I feel pretty hopeless about it all at the moment.
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I'm seriously thinking about quitting uni at the end of this year and abandoning my quest to become a therapist.
Higher education feels so inaccessible to me, even with support.
I am melting down at every assignment because it's unclear what they actually want, or they put in rules that don't make any sense.
I feel pretty hopeless about it all at the moment.
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On-point infographic about #Rewilding in the historical context 🙂 #ByDesignOrByDisaster ?
#RewildingEurope #OpenUniversity #TheOpenUniversity #OpenEdu RT https://cutie.city/@aaron/115944291334353238 (24h-long #SelfPacedLearning course)
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On-point infographic about #Rewilding in the historical context 🙂 #ByDesignOrByDisaster ?
#RewildingEurope #OpenUniversity #TheOpenUniversity #OpenEdu RT https://cutie.city/@aaron/115944291334353238 (24h-long #SelfPacedLearning course)
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On-point infographic about #Rewilding in the historical context 🙂 #ByDesignOrByDisaster ?
#RewildingEurope #OpenUniversity #TheOpenUniversity #OpenEdu RT https://cutie.city/@aaron/115944291334353238 (24h-long #SelfPacedLearning course)
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On-point infographic about #Rewilding in the historical context 🙂 #ByDesignOrByDisaster ?
#RewildingEurope #OpenUniversity #TheOpenUniversity #OpenEdu RT https://cutie.city/@aaron/115944291334353238 (24h-long #SelfPacedLearning course)
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On-point infographic about #Rewilding in the historical context 🙂 #ByDesignOrByDisaster ?
#RewildingEurope #OpenUniversity #TheOpenUniversity #OpenEdu RT https://cutie.city/@aaron/115944291334353238 (24h-long #SelfPacedLearning course)
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Free ways to beat the January blues including food and drink freebies
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/free-ways-beat-january-blues-36603761
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Dear Friends in the the #UK, :agummyhug:
Very pleased about the good news, which as you know does happen. Maybe if only on a personal level:
1) Did a lot of mantra through the night to the feminine principle (nothing to do with a head mistress)
2) Watched "The Brothers Grimsby'' which for some reason had very poor reviews. We laffed almost incessantly. #Outrageous spoof Bond movie. Maybe it's #Britishness is not to all (bad/crude) tastes
3) Very pleased that my concentration is returning. It maybe due to extra #Meditation. Maybe doing some #OpenUniversity courses will help further
4) Now have quite a selection of computer options, OS options and many leads to a better #Cyberverse. #Hopeful
5) Was very pleased that antipasti and antifascist are not for aunties or indeed related
Have a great day everyone. Remember your roots are not just for dyeing.
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Dear Friends in the the #UK, :agummyhug:
Very pleased about the good news, which as you know does happen. Maybe if only on a personal level:
1) Did a lot of mantra through the night to the feminine principle (nothing to do with a head mistress)
2) Watched "The Brothers Grimsby'' which for some reason had very poor reviews. We laffed almost incessantly. #Outrageous spoof Bond movie. Maybe it's #Britishness is not to all (bad/crude) tastes
3) Very pleased that my concentration is returning. It maybe due to extra #Meditation. Maybe doing some #OpenUniversity courses will help further
4) Now have quite a selection of computer options, OS options and many leads to a better #Cyberverse. #Hopeful
5) Was very pleased that antipasti and antifascist are not for aunties or indeed related
Have a great day everyone. Remember your roots are not just for dyeing.
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Dear Friends in the the #UK, :agummyhug:
Very pleased about the good news, which as you know does happen. Maybe if only on a personal level:
1) Did a lot of mantra through the night to the feminine principle (nothing to do with a head mistress)
2) Watched "The Brothers Grimsby'' which for some reason had very poor reviews. We laffed almost incessantly. #Outrageous spoof Bond movie. Maybe it's #Britishness is not to all (bad/crude) tastes
3) Very pleased that my concentration is returning. It maybe due to extra #Meditation. Maybe doing some #OpenUniversity courses will help further
4) Now have quite a selection of computer options, OS options and many leads to a better #Cyberverse. #Hopeful
5) Was very pleased that antipasti and antifascist are not for aunties or indeed related
Have a great day everyone. Remember your roots are not just for dyeing.
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Dear Friends in the the #UK, :agummyhug:
Very pleased about the good news, which as you know does happen. Maybe if only on a personal level:
1) Did a lot of mantra through the night to the feminine principle (nothing to do with a head mistress)
2) Watched "The Brothers Grimsby'' which for some reason had very poor reviews. We laffed almost incessantly. #Outrageous spoof Bond movie. Maybe it's #Britishness is not to all (bad/crude) tastes
3) Very pleased that my concentration is returning. It maybe due to extra #Meditation. Maybe doing some #OpenUniversity courses will help further
4) Now have quite a selection of computer options, OS options and many leads to a better #Cyberverse. #Hopeful
5) Was very pleased that antipasti and antifascist are not for aunties or indeed related
Have a great day everyone. Remember your roots are not just for dyeing.
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the #OpenUniversity is complicit in war crimes & genocide by partnering with #BAEsystems, #Microsoft, #Cisco & #Alphabet (#Google ) & probably others. please sign & share this #petition.
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Are you interested in rewilding? Do you have some spare time to study?
Open University are offering a free introductory course to rewilding. As far as I can tell it's available worldwide too.
It's self-study so you can go at your own pace: https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/index.php?categoryid=1655
Boosts welcome.
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I'm trying to learn to celebrate this year and to allow myself to be proud of the "not perfect" achievements that are still something to be proud of. But it is a practice and it requires conscious choice, and often a lot of nervous system soothing.
My most recent assignment was another 85% and instead of giving in to the shame I feel about that being "so low" and not good enough, I am fighting back by sharing it.
Shame dies in sunlight ☀️.
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so in good (maybe) news, the support person DSA have given me is AuDHD and has done an OU psychology degree. Seeing her on Wednesday.
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I want to get this assignment finished and sent in this morning but I am, once again, struggling to understand what they actually want me to do.
"Drawing on material in chapter 7 and the online material in week 9, evaluate the role of environmental factors on an individual’s experience of stress."
I know they don't mean evaluate the research that has been done into environmental factors and what it tells us about that now.
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