anyone else unhaapy with OU materials? [rant]

[gailsedotes]

regugitating rubbish facts is NOT a life skill - unless you plan on being a sicophant!
how is this helping me learn? how is conforming to an incredibly strict format designed to make markers lives easiser and designed to create 300 copies of the SAME essay accomplishing anything? it is a poor excuse to say that it is the same if you submit a paper to a journal because it isnt! I should bloody know i edit them!

HYPOCRITES!
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[maredudd1066.livejournal.com]

Its not just OU. One of the many reasons I decided that I could not become a teacher was "marking guidelines": If a child decided to do independent research and handed me a perfectly reasoned essay, full of facts both for and against the issue under discussion, written to degree level; if those facts were not the ones on my marking guide, I could only give that child the maximum discretionary marks and none of the "bullet point" marks. This would result in that child getting 3 out of 25, or 12%.
Another child who regurgitated 10 facts that were on my marking guide, with no introduction, argument or conclusion would, even if I declined to offer any of my discretionary marks, recieve 22 out of 25, or 88%.

[gailsedotes.livejournal.com]

bless you!