10 skills I gained from an Open University degree: Take your knowledge from the classroom into the world (Surviving the Open University Book 2)

David Wells

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The 10 skills I’m going to tell you about inside this new eBook from Surviving the OU. Useful for current students and people considering starting with the Open University.

I now work in a university field now and find some of the tools I picked up while studying with the Open University to be extremely useful in my current line of work.

1. Research skills: The ability to find information and ideas, and the ability to critically distinguish between various sources of ideas. Researching and collecting evidence is an integral part of writing TMAs.

2. Writing skills: The ability to structure your thoughts coherently and express yourself in ways that are appropriate to the occasion. TMAs, or essays as they effectively are, need good writing skills and use of grammar, spelling and punctuation .

3. Reading Skills: The ability to understand language and systems of meaning, whether they occur in literal texts, or in other forms. Humanities students learn to read images, culture, and a host of other things, besides written texts. Not only do we read the textbooks and course materials but we need to really take in the information and critically evaluate it while working out what we need and what we can ignore.

4. Critical thinking skills: The ability to tell better ideas from worse, the ability to test ideas by subjecting them to relevant criteria. Some idea during OU courses can be testing and hard to prise open.

5. Time and resource management skills: The ability to work under pressure and maximize resources to produce a desired outcome. Planning out time around busy work and life schedules is a vital skill for Open University students. We cannot afford to waste a second.

6. Speaking and Communication skills: The ability to confidently and clearly express your ideas. The ability to convince someone of your arguments and persuade them of your point of view. Whether it’s reading off the page or putting our points across clearly and concisely in a tutorial good speaking skills are a plus.

7. Problem-solving skills: The ability to understand and express a problem that needs to be solved, and the knowledge of various methods of analysis that might be relevant to the problem. Degree courses present problems and we are required to solve them.

8. Global understanding and cultural sensitivity: The ability to appreciate cultures and religious traditions outside of your own. Read more on the actual chapter about this but this was an underrated part of my journey and development.

9. Perspectival understanding: The ability to understand how other people or groups think, and to value difference. Empathy and perspective is needed when we are assessing others’ viewpoints or trying our best not to scream in frustration at the tutorial know-it-all.

10. Independent and group learning skills: The ability to learn, and the ability to recognize opportunities to learn. We study and learn alone and we study and learn in groups. Everyone is different but each method holds merit.

I learned many things throughout my six years studying with the Open University. It was an amazing time that I enjoyed greatly - so much so that I’m returning to study my Masters with them. Most importantly many of the key skills I learned I been able to integrate them into day to day life as well as appreciating the importance of learning them. I have realised that much of what I learned with the OU does not just fly out of the window once I’ve passed that tricky TMA, EMA, exam or module but rather these are skills that I retain for life and use repeatedly.

Language: English

Pages: 47

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: David Wells

Release: September 25, 2016

10 skills I gained from an Open University degree: Take your knowledge from the classroom into the world (Surviving the Open University Book 2)

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10 skills I gained from an Open University degree: Take your knowledge from the classroom into the world (Surviving the Open University Book 2)

10 skills I gained from an Open University degree: Take your knowledge from the classroom into the world (Surviving the Open University Book 2)

10 skills I gained from an Open University degree: Take your knowledge from the classroom into the world (Surviving the Open University Book 2)

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