Open College of the Arts Degrees

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If you are studying with them, can you share your experience please?

If you have considered studying with them and decided against it, can you share your reasoning?

My thanks to you in advance.

Bump. I got about six weeks into a course 30 years ago but ended up getting divorced instead ... I have the time to try again now.

I haven't done a degree with them but I enrolled on a non-accredited course earlier this year and have barely finished the first module (which was only one month long). I lost momentum and my job got busier so I had less time (or that's my excuse anyway). My course is very small and you can start at any time, so everyone works in isolation and there's no 'community' of students (on my course). I think the degree modules will be different though.

There's an online portal where all students can post and discuss things and that seems to be widely used by certain subjects (eg photography). But you have to log in and I can't be bothered to keep looking up my log in details. Ditto the email account - they give you a Google account and I can't be arsed to keep looking up my log in. Not that there's anything for them to email me about because I'm not doing an assessed course.

The online blog/record of progress that students have to do is really good for seeing what work other students have produced, so it's a good 'shop window' to see the type of work that can be achieved and what the course is like. But you really need a lot of self-discipline to stay on track and finish the modules.