Don't make me think - well, OK, please do!

My current Open University course, H809, is quite a surprise, and a pleasant surprise at that. It's an introduction to research methods, but unlike anything I have encountered before. Instead of studying bits and pieces of this research method and that research method, we look very closely at the relationship between theory and research practices, between target audience and the presentation of research, or between scientific communities and their cultural expectations regarding what topics are "worthy" of study. It's a quiet course, consisting of a fair amount of reading, a bit of discussing, and lots and lots of thinking. Here, the different backgrounds of students (scientists and practitioners; people from education, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences; people from different countries) is a real resource, even more so than in other MA ODE courses.
It seems that my last MA ODE course will turn out to be my favourite one. That is, if I stop procrastinating now and return to work on my TMA :-)