Mark, you have been an inspiration to me for several years in the flight sim arena (I am now 4 years into building a Cessna 206 cockpit in my spare time!), so let me be an inspiration to you and say: "Go for it!" It will be a great mental challenge if nothing else but I suspect it could be much more! And, who knows, you might even learn something about maths along the way!
I did a couple of OU courses about 20 years ago. This helped me get a new job, but the pressure of the new job meant I didn't have the bandwidth to complete the rest of the course. I thought about having another go a couple of years ago and couldn't believe how expensive it is now. It used to be really cost-effective but now is about the same as any other university course - which I thought was a real shame and kind of against the ethos of the OU. Your price of £245 is equivalent to £468 in today's money. So how it's now £1600 makes no sense to me just for 30 credits! I think you need 300 for a degree right? which would be, what £16K now?
I've had issues with OU and that particular course mst121 it happened to me twice that the packages sent late ,once attending a tutorial and I was blank the tutor said did you receive block C and D and I said no . Telephone the hotline the two packages arrived and these booklets were thicker than block A and B also found out my assignments were back to back asked the tutor for an extension and he gave me a week ,now the point of reading these booklets is to understand the material and in the end started to skip chapters to catch up from the wasted 3 weeks this in 2002 in the end gave up on the course the tutorials were poorly constructed badly explained for example the tutor skipping the solution to equations which was annoying and Mathcad that as well was a joke it had a habit of solving quadratic equations in fractions and when you assume following mathematical steps like using a calculator the mathcad kept loading error steps in annoying red ink .
Mark, you have been an inspiration to me for several years in the flight sim arena (I am now 4 years into building a Cessna 206 cockpit in my spare time!), so let me be an inspiration to you and say: "Go for it!" It will be a great mental challenge if nothing else but I suspect it could be much more! And, who knows, you might even learn something about maths along the way!
I did a couple of OU courses about 20 years ago. This helped me get a new job, but the pressure of the new job meant I didn't have the bandwidth to complete the rest of the course. I thought about having another go a couple of years ago and couldn't believe how expensive it is now. It used to be really cost-effective but now is about the same as any other university course - which I thought was a real shame and kind of against the ethos of the OU. Your price of £245 is equivalent to £468 in today's money. So how it's now £1600 makes no sense to me just for 30 credits! I think you need 300 for a degree right? which would be, what £16K now?
I've had issues with OU and that particular course mst121 it happened to me twice that the packages sent late ,once attending a tutorial and I was blank the tutor said did you receive block C and D and I said no . Telephone the hotline the two packages arrived and these booklets were thicker than block A and B also found out my assignments were back to back asked the tutor for an extension and he gave me a week ,now the point of reading these booklets is to understand the material and in the end started to skip chapters to catch up from the wasted 3 weeks this in 2002 in the end gave up on the course the tutorials were poorly constructed badly explained for example the tutor skipping the solution to equations which was annoying and Mathcad that as well was a joke it had a habit of solving quadratic equations in fractions and when you assume following mathematical steps like using a calculator the mathcad kept loading error steps in annoying red ink .