I was working as a Project Ecologist for a species recovery project at the time, so I had plenty of opportunity to study habitats and species for the project and research for assignments was often beneficial for my work.
As with all courses, the lessons can only provide a skeleton, which can be fleshed out from research and writing off assignments. I am extremely grateful to ADL for letting me stretch the word count, to ensure that I had maximum benefit from research for the assignments, being able to answer the questions in greater depth and increase my learning.
This has been the most enjoyable course I have done through ADL, my 4th. All learning material was relevant to the subject, as were the assignments, so it exceeded my experience and expectations.
I was permitted to change the species for some of the assignments, to make it more relevant to the UK and my learning, including the PBL.
Course was well structured and although many of the species studies were not relevant to the UK, the principles and assignments were transferable to UK species.
My Tutor, Allira May Murphy provided feedback and encouragement following submitting assignments,
and as always, Cara (student support services) was prompt to reply and gave a good service.
I felt I needed greater freedom to apply the assignments to species relevant to my country without having to ask, which I was permitted to do, but may help other students.
Really enjoyable and useful course as a refresher in the subject.