I'm working on it. Have a pretty good idea who's high risk versus who will cope, so am keeping a close eye where I need to and sacrificing social distancing, because there are lots of different types of vulnerability and social distance makes some of them worse (as I am sure you know!) :(
If the OU proceeds with any face to face teaching, they will be pretty much the only uni in the country doing so. I think you're right, I genuinely cannot see it happening. The module I teach at uni is also assessed by group presentations (due in May) and the decision has already been made that that won't be happening (I mean, fuck, we've already told all staff and PGRs to work from home, and students not to come back after Easter). God knows what the actual plan for assessment will be, but it won't involve putting people in the same room.
I'm okay, I'm pretty good at rolling with the punches (thank you, psychological make-up) and tend to have a pretty fatalistic approach to shit I can't change so am largely adopting an attitude of "it be reet" to all of it and trying to work out bits and bobs I can do to help myself, my social circle and more widely. That latter is hard though; there's no clear co-ordination, so finding ways to help in general is challenging! Also finding I'm spending a lot of time trying to save our small business, which is just not covered by any of the ridiculously out of touch proposals put forward by the government to "help" business, since they assume that all businesses run on a conventional bricks and mortar shop model *eyeroll*
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If the OU proceeds with any face to face teaching, they will be pretty much the only uni in the country doing so. I think you're right, I genuinely cannot see it happening. The module I teach at uni is also assessed by group presentations (due in May) and the decision has already been made that that won't be happening (I mean, fuck, we've already told all staff and PGRs to work from home, and students not to come back after Easter). God knows what the actual plan for assessment will be, but it won't involve putting people in the same room.
I'm okay, I'm pretty good at rolling with the punches (thank you, psychological make-up) and tend to have a pretty fatalistic approach to shit I can't change so am largely adopting an attitude of "it be reet" to all of it and trying to work out bits and bobs I can do to help myself, my social circle and more widely. That latter is hard though; there's no clear co-ordination, so finding ways to help in general is challenging! Also finding I'm spending a lot of time trying to save our small business, which is just not covered by any of the ridiculously out of touch proposals put forward by the government to "help" business, since they assume that all businesses run on a conventional bricks and mortar shop model *eyeroll*