fraze1987

Does anyone know if there's an Australian equivalent to the Open University in order to do some distance learning?

helinuk

Open learning Australia.
sorry its such a long link!
http://www.ola.edu.au/cgi-bin/hive/h...EAU=OLA+Bureau

JAJ

A number of Australian universities have a good choice of distance learning options. These include Monash and Deakin.

http://www.monash.edu.au (part of the Group of Eight)
http://www.deakin.edu.au

You could also look at the University of London External Programme:
http://www.londonexternal.ac.uk/

Jeremy

fraze1987

Thats great, thanks to you both for the links

OzTennis

And for later in life there is the University of the 3rd Age:

http://www.u3aonline.org/

(Aussie section) http://www58.gu.edu.au:4500/u3a/index.php

And lets face it, with the internet you can study online from institutions in other countries (eg London as Jeremy points out). Can OU courses be done in another country??

TAFE colleges do a lot of distance learning as well.

Recently we had an Aussie doing teaching practice at our (Scottish) school online from Monash (he's doing a Dip Ed course remotely)

OzTennis

OzTennis

Ushas

Hubby asked me to post this because he's too lazy to register!

http://www3.open.ac.uk/near-you/worl...Australia.shtm


Hope it works

fraze1987

Excellent - didnt realise you could do OU courses in Oz - did a module a couple of years back and was interested in resurrecting it. Thanks very much to your lazy husband !

JAJ

It's still only a small proportion of the OU courses available. They do let students elsewhere in Europe access the full range of courses, why they can't simply post course materials to Australia and let students arrange an exam invigiliation from a local uni is something I've never understood.

The University of London doesn't have any geographic restrictions, to my knowledge.

Jeremy

JackTheLad

Slightly off topic but sort of related.

If you just want to learn, but don't care for credits or any recognization, have a look at MIT's courses online. They are all available free. You can learn about computers, Japanese culture, Shakespeare, plasma physics, entrepreneurial finance, space propulsion, micro and macro economics, sailing yacht design, "engineering of trees", "causes and prevention of war", "magic, witchcraft and the spirit world", or just about anything.

All free. No registration.

Too good to be true? Go have a look yourself.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm

The catch is you don't get any faculty support, but you can download all course materials that interest you - some are more complete than others. And you may need to go and buy books for some of the required readings if you are serious about it.

Cheers,
Mrs JTL

arnie2oz

Good Link Mrs JTL - something for when it's raining in Bayside

Big Galah

Just remember while it's possible to do some OU courses from anywhere in the world, they cost a lot more outside the EU. A short course I was looking at cost £99 in the UK and £270 from Oz. That's a lot of dollars.

Big.