Third, each course usually involves large numbers of students and associate lecturers, thus creating a broad community of people across the UK and Europe who have invested their intellectual energy in a shared experience. This is especially true of our level one courses. Understanding Social Change. We also marked, with both sadness and pride, the passing of its predecessor, D103, which has been taken by 59,629 people since 1991. It's interesting to recall that in 1963, when Harold Wilson launched the idea of the OU into our political discourse, there were only 130,000 students in all UK universities combined.
Today there are more students than that in the OU alone.
DD100, with 10,100 students registered this year, has set an OU record for the largest number of students enrolled in a single course. Another course that has attracted almost as many applicants is T171, You, Your Computer and the Net. At first sight the they appear very different. T171 aims to give you the skills to use a computer confidently and also to understand how personal computers and the net developed. The goal of DD100 is to help you understand social change.