A first presentation of a new module can sometimes be a fraught experience with things going wrong and people (staff and students) generally not really knowing what's going on. But this module was different. It was a brilliant first presentation, and more than that; it was a brilliant module. Of course, as a first presentation, things did evolve - like the addition of high quality videos which were initially quite low quality, but the issues were minimal.
Like most people, I was watching the BBC/OU television series, Frozen Planet, at the same time as studying the module, unlike most students, I was also reading the BBC book to accompany the TV series too! For some this may have seemed like a bit of an overload, but far from it: It really added a lot to the module for me. I was learning great things on the videos, some from previous BBC series, such as Life in the Freezer, and some purposely made for the modules. I was learning a lot from the OU module book too.
What really rounded the module off was the brilliant handling of the forums by the module team and the facebook page that a fellow student set up and which was quite active with lots of news links, and such like, being added and discussed.
The topics of the module included:
- An introduction to the Frozen Planet
- Frozen in Time
- The Drive to the Poles
- The Poles and Global Climate
- Life in the Polar Regions
- Habitats and Ecosystems
- Polar Oceans and Food Chains
- The Management of Polar Regions
- The Future of the Frozen Planet
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