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smallhobbit) wrote2023-12-27 12:48 pm
smallhobbit) wrote2023-12-27 12:48 pm
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Courses December 2023
Less courses this time, but I wanted to close the year off.
One FutureLearn course:
Japanese Culture Through Rare Books (Keno University) This is the third course on this subject which I have done, and I enjoyed building on what I already knew. It's fascinating seeing how the books changed over the centuries and gives me a greater appreciation of them when I see them and references to them elsewhere.
And three OpenLearn courses:
Beginners' Tamil: a taster course A very short course but it was interesting to see and hear Tamil and just broadening my mind to include another language from the Indian sub-continent and beyond.
An introduction to exoplanets My latest badged course, looking at planets which circle other stars, how they can be investigated and how they can be found in the first place. Quite a bit of maths was involved and I was pleased to see that bit I could cope with. I passed the two compulsory tests and gained my badge.
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology Given my interest in reading murder mysteries I thought this might be an interesting course to take. I'm not sure I gained that much new knowledge, although I was pleased I chose the right suspect.
Exploring the English Language Looks a bit at how English became the language of all and not just the common people. Not as interesting as I'd hoped.
Which brings me to the end of my year of courses. I'm taking one at the moment, a new FutureLearn course which began last week which will go into next year.
I've now taken a total of 141 FutureLearn courses and have 5 on my wish list. One I'm taking now, one I'm planning to do in the next month or so, and three are currently unavailable.
I also have 6 on my OpenLearn wish list. 3 of those are badged, which means 8 weeks of 3 hours per week (that's flexible), so my plan is to take one every two months (ish). The other 3 were all suggestions from their Advent calendar, which I've lined up for next year.
So yes, I've still got plenty to work through and keep the brain active and looking at a variety of subjects. Because I'm now concentrating more on OpenLearn courses I've changed my tag from 'futurelearn' which is no longer really appropriate to the more obvious 'courses'.
One overriding thing I've learnt is that there are so many fascinating things in the world and beyond that it would be a shame not to find out about some of them.
One FutureLearn course:
Japanese Culture Through Rare Books (Keno University) This is the third course on this subject which I have done, and I enjoyed building on what I already knew. It's fascinating seeing how the books changed over the centuries and gives me a greater appreciation of them when I see them and references to them elsewhere.
And three OpenLearn courses:
Beginners' Tamil: a taster course A very short course but it was interesting to see and hear Tamil and just broadening my mind to include another language from the Indian sub-continent and beyond.
An introduction to exoplanets My latest badged course, looking at planets which circle other stars, how they can be investigated and how they can be found in the first place. Quite a bit of maths was involved and I was pleased to see that bit I could cope with. I passed the two compulsory tests and gained my badge.
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology Given my interest in reading murder mysteries I thought this might be an interesting course to take. I'm not sure I gained that much new knowledge, although I was pleased I chose the right suspect.
Exploring the English Language Looks a bit at how English became the language of all and not just the common people. Not as interesting as I'd hoped.
Which brings me to the end of my year of courses. I'm taking one at the moment, a new FutureLearn course which began last week which will go into next year.
I've now taken a total of 141 FutureLearn courses and have 5 on my wish list. One I'm taking now, one I'm planning to do in the next month or so, and three are currently unavailable.
I also have 6 on my OpenLearn wish list. 3 of those are badged, which means 8 weeks of 3 hours per week (that's flexible), so my plan is to take one every two months (ish). The other 3 were all suggestions from their Advent calendar, which I've lined up for next year.
So yes, I've still got plenty to work through and keep the brain active and looking at a variety of subjects. Because I'm now concentrating more on OpenLearn courses I've changed my tag from 'futurelearn' which is no longer really appropriate to the more obvious 'courses'.
One overriding thing I've learnt is that there are so many fascinating things in the world and beyond that it would be a shame not to find out about some of them.
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You must know so many things! That exoplanets one sounds interesting. What was the best thing you learned on that one?
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Getting to see how different sizes of star and exoplanet and the distance between the two affects the possibilities of some form of life existing on them.
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Presumably life with similar chemical composition to our own, because there's not much they can predict about life that is totally unlike ours. But still, it seems that there's no reason to think that our type of life would be particularly rare.
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It is so exciting that the more we look, the more we find out there. I read somewhere that the galaxy/universe is actually quite young, and I rather like the idea that we might be one of the first civilizations out there. Maybe several million years in the future we will be one of the mysterious lost forerunners for some grand galactic empire belonging to some other creatures. That makes me feel better about the prospect of extinction.
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Congratulations on reaching such an impressive total of FutureLearn courses! I hope you continue to enjoy expanding your mind and earning more badges! :-D
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