Weekly facilitation
A scheduled live session per course, plus the recording. Bring the question you got stuck on rather than saving it for the end of the semester.
Study support
Remote, but not on your own
Facilitation, a place to sit examinations, and someone to ask when the answer is not in the study unit.
Study centres
You are attached to a study centre
You register at a study centre near you and it stays your base for the whole programme. Facilitation, support and your end-of-semester examinations all happen there, so the travelling is local and predictable rather than a trip to campus.
Where and when
Your centre is confirmed when you are admitted, and examination dates are published with the semester calendar.
Through the semester
What you can call on
Material you can keep
Study units are written to be downloaded and worked offline, so studying does not depend on staying connected for hours at a time.
Marked work, returned
Assignments come back with feedback from the facilitator who set them, and your continuous assessment total is visible as it builds.
Your record is one record
Registration, results, grade point averages and your transcript live in the same place as every other student at Demo Open University. This site is a different door, not a different institution — which is also why you sign in with one account whichever door you use.
The certificate says nothing about distance
You are examined against the same grading scheme and classified on the same bands. Delivery mode is how the institution taught you, not a qualifier on what you earned.