Is Open University a good choice for studying Biology?

I have been really thinking about starting a degree course at Open University. I have been through so many sites reading reviews because I don't want this to turn out to be a bad choice. The reviews are largely varied. It seems that a few years ago the reviews were amazing... But not so much anymore?

Is there anyone here currently at Open University that could give me some advice and honest opinions on it? And has it gone down hill in recent years?

I have been really thinking about starting a degree course at Open University. I have been through so many sites reading reviews because I don't want this to turn out to be a bad choice. The reviews are largely varied. It seems that a few years ago the reviews were amazing... But not so much anymore?

Is there anyone here currently at Open University that could give me some advice and honest opinions on it? And has it gone down hill in recent years?

I have been really thinking about starting a degree course at Open University. I have been through so many sites reading reviews because I don't want this to turn out to be a bad choice. The reviews are largely varied. It seems that a few years ago the reviews were amazing... But not so much anymore?

Is there anyone here currently at Open University that could give me some advice and honest opinions on it? And has it gone down hill in recent years?

I have been really thinking about starting a degree course at Open University. I have been through so many sites reading reviews because I don't want this to turn out to be a bad choice. The reviews are largely varied. It seems that a few years ago the reviews were amazing... But not so much anymore?

Is there anyone here currently at Open University that could give me some advice and honest opinions on it? And has it gone down hill in recent years?

I'm studying biology at the OU now, I love it the freedom it allows me, its nice studying in your own time, all lectures are recorded so you can work a job alongside the degree if you wish and still keep up with the course content. I found juggling work and the sheer amount of coursework you have to do almost impossible though. Also I don't know what tutors are like at brick and mortar unis, but the tutors I've come across so far at the OU have been boring, completely frustrating and lack lustre at best, they sound bored and uninterested in the lectures they deliver. They also overcomplicate everything unnecessarily, adding jargon that doesn't need to be there to questions that could be very straightforward. Any help given by the tutors when I would reach out would also be frustrating, they would often give me answers to questions I hadn't even asked, ignoring the actual question I had. No joke, I sent 5 emails to one of my tutors copying and pasting the question after every response, id say something along the line of 'thanks for your reply but actually my question was _____' to which id get another very vague or unrelated response, completely ignoring my question. In the end I gave up with the tutors and their lectures and the content they provided and would instead do my own research for my assignments and my own research for the course content, pushing the confusing (and sometimes incorrect) information they would provide to one side. Speaking of wrong content, you know somethings wrong when the students are correcting the tutors in lectures for providing wrong answers to maths questions or incorrect scientific facts. When I did move my study outside of the tutors content, the time I would take trying to wrap my head around confusing jargon filled course content was cut in half and I fell in love with the subject again! So if you can get past the lazy tutors and boring lectures and make your study your own then the OU is a brilliant uni! As soon as you find your legs and find what works for you it can be amazing and so worth trying.

Hi, I'm just curious about how you went about effectively teaching yourself? Did you have to find your own study materials that corresponded to the material you would be graded on? How were you confident you were learning the correct things? I'm considering the Biology undergrad course, so it would be great to know!