Hello and welcome! In case it's not blindingly obvious, this is a new blog with no real content yet. I've started it to share my experiences with online learning (or distance education or whatever you'd like to call it). My plan is to share my experience of various classes, the online assessment system, planning and preparing, reaching out to fellow students and anything else I think might be useful (or at least not boring).
Like many people my age, I had a bit of a trial-and-fail issue with my first attempt at uni. There are all kinds of reasons this happened and all kinds of excuses I could offer but the fact remains that after 3 years of study I left university at age twenty with no degree and no understanding of the need for higher education.
Four years later, I'm back in the game and studying through Open Universities Australia. When making the decision to go back to uni, OUA was my first choice. I work full time in a job I love and I have a bad habit of changing countries on a regular basis so this option made the most sense. The advantage of still having Fee-Help didn't hurt either. However, the biggest problem I found when researching and planning was that it's hard to know what to expect. With the exception of some videos on OUA's own website, no one seems to be really sharing their experiences.
What this means is that I have just committed to a highly expensive, three year program without a clue as to how it will turn out. As yet, I've no idea how OUA classes work, how they're typically assessed, how to plan, how to prepare or anything else that would have been truly, truly useful.
So here I am - little old me - doing my best to make it a tiny bit easier for the next person who faces the same dilemma. You're welcome. I'll try and be humble as I accept your worship.
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