Is this a new n/g?

[T i m]

I only see one one post here. Is that correct?

Cheers, T i m

[Jamie D.]

"T i m" <ne...@spaced.me.uk> wrote in message
news:1f14v7ho1eih1qip5...@4ax.com...

>I only see one one post here. Is that correct?
>
> Cheers, T i m

Certainly doesn't seem very active, does it (as evidenced by my 3-month-late
reply)?! Perhaps I'll try their online forums.

[Avoi...@gmail.com]

OMG ! The FB/twitter kiddies can't find how to use USEnet.
And the OU net material is a disaster.
Imagine studying a serious maths/physics book, with every few
lines punctuated by adverts for CocaCola & Lucky Strike.

OU is closely associated with BBC.
BBC *must* continually present material, so It's inevitable
that they pad it with garbage, to generate 'material'.
In the old days a technical article would be spread over 6 issues
of the published magazine. So you'd get a page and half of valuable
contents, padded out with 25 pages of adverts.

That style has, by necessity been adopted by BBC and disgracefully
by OU.
Every OU web-page that you download has the SAME repeated 90%
garbage. It's faudulent.

[Avoi...@gmail.com]

In article <adnn5n...@mid.individual.net>, "Jamie D." <as...@noemail.net> wrote:

> "T i m" <ne...@spaced.me.uk> wrote in message
> news:1f14v7ho1eih1qip5...@4ax.com...
> >I only see one one post here. Is that correct?
> >
> > Cheers, T i m
>
> Certainly doesn't seem very active, does it (as evidenced by my 3-month-late
> reply)?! Perhaps I'll try their online forums.
>
OMG ! The FB/twitter kiddies can't find how to use USEnet.
And the OU net material is a disaster.
Imagine studying a serious maths/physics book, with every few
lines punctuated by adverts for CocaCola & Lucky Strike.

OU is closely associated with BBC.

BBC *must* continually present material, so it's inevitable

that they pad it with garbage, to generate 'material'.

In the old days a technical article would be spread over 6 issues

of a published magazine. So you'd get a page and half of valuable

contents, padded out with 25 pages of adverts.

That style has, by necessity been adopted by BBC and disgracefully
by OU.
Every OU web-page that you download has the SAME repeated 90%
garbage. It's faudulent.

===
Since I've criticised OU, as being like a trashy woman's magazine,
I must be able to show how it should/could be done better?
Well, obviously I googled: distance+education.

One of the first [which is an indication that google's ranking works
well] was : http://www.uidaho.edu/eo/dist1.html

It's not yet obvious to me whether uidaho provides <distance education>
or are just analysing distance education - like I'm trying to do now.
When downloading [and storing the text of] a dozen of their 'pages',
I found that only 10% was repeated [the TOC] instead of 90% like OU.
And here's a sample paragraph of uidaho.
Notice how dense-with-non-obvious facts it is, compared to OU's
repetative <life is better with Coke, comic style>.

=======> Extract of: http://www.uidaho.edu/eo/dist1.html
Administrators - Although administrators are typically influential
in planning an institution's distance education program, they often
lose contact or relinquish control to technical managers once the
program is operational. Effective distance education administrators
are more than idea people. They are consensus builders, decision
makers, and referees. They work closely with technical and support
service personnel, ensuring that technological resources are
effectively deployed to further the institution's academic mission.
Most importantly, they maintain an academic focus, realizing that
meeting the instructional needs of distant students is their
ultimate responsibility.

=======> Extract of:
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/finding-information-society/content-section-1.1.1

#[1]Finding information in Society

[2]Skip to content
[3]The Open University
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[179]Radio
+ Monday 15th April
o [180]12:15pm, BBC Radio 4, Thinking Allowed -
Thatcherism and thrift chic
+ Wednesday 17th April
o [181]4:00pm, Radio 4, Thinking Allowed - English
heritage and clergy lives

[182]Events

* You are here:
* [183]Home
* [184]Society
* [185]Finding information in Society
* 1.1.1 Assessing your current level ...

Finding information in Society

Free Course Featuring: Audio Activity
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This unit will help you to identify and use information in Society,
whether for your work, study or personal purposes. Experiment with
some of the key resources in this subject area, and learn about the
skills which will enable you to plan searches for information, so
you can find what you are looking for more easily. Discover the
meaning of information quality, and learn how to evaluate the
information you come across. You will also be introduced to the many
different ways of organising your own information, and learn how to
reference it properly in your work. Finally, discover how to keep up
to date with the latest developments in your area of interest by
using tools such as RSS and mailing lists.

By the end of this unit you should be able to:
* conduct your own searches efficiently and effectively;
...
Try: Children and violence: An introductory,...
Children are subject to many forms of adversity, for example,
poverty or ill health....
* [201]More like this OLE
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* [308]TV
* [309]Radio
* [310]Events
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==> 317 links to garbage, for a paragraph of baby-talk!
=======
Note that the OU material contains ONE paragraph of baby-talk,
after the 186 !! links, which have all been repeated in ALL the
other pages which you fetched, related to the topic.
And how they include the current Radio time table in material
ostensibly re. 'finding-information-society'.

And why introduce "Children and violence"?

nufSed

[abelard]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2013 20:11:21 +0000 (UTC), Avoi...@gmail.com wrote:



first, fix your computer clock