What is your opinion on home learning?

I guess it could be great just as long participating in socail activies

I agree with juliapentle. I have done home learning and its good, if you have the time. it is hard to balance work and study but the good thing is its not full time and if you are reasonably organised its fine

It's good. Apparently I must use ten words, so It's still good.

When I feel the need to learn I always seem to be homeless, so can't really say

Great idea but you need to be very organised with your time and commited as there is noone else there to push you to get work done but you.

It would work for me because I don't have time to attend classes and I'm not really into the whole 'being in a club' thing anyway. I was never a student in the traditional sense and it suited me to do it that way. You do need to have application though to learn in your own time.

I think it can be brilliant, especially for those who have the will and the time.

Very good for people who cant afford to give up work to go to university. I've done several and would recommend them.

Congratulations on the new position and gaining qualifications!

I did home learning with the OU and thoroughly enjoyed it. There's a calender of what you should be doing each week and a forum for everyone on your course and you discuss that weeks tasks with the other members so it makes sense to do it that week and you can check it on your calender. Some though not all courses have an online learning wizard which is supposed to help but I just found utterly confusing and did loads better with just the forums and calender.

Also, if you find you don't concentrate as well when reading large parts of text on the computer you can order them in paper form free of charge which take a week or so to be delivered. For me it was definately worth doing as I like to have the paper copy, make notes, highlight important bits etc.

Good Luck!

Home learning is great - if you hasve the commitment. I did my BSc with the OU as illness made me housebound. They were fantastic, really helped me to cope with the work....and believe me it is work! You do need to put the hours in. But you will have a personal tiutor to help, and you do communicate with other students too! Good Luck!