grad ireland presentation
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Distance Learning – Pros and Cons
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Postgraduate Study
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Why?
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• “Distance learning is a way of learning remotely without being in regular face-to-face contact with a lecturer in the classroom”
• IT IS NOT ELEARNING
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What is distance learning?
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What is distance learning?
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Misperceptions?
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• Small Market compared to the UK
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Distance Learning in Ireland
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Lifelong learning
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Career Progression
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Upskilling
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Reskilling
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Management Development
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It’s Tough
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Motivation
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Discipline
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Sacrifice
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Finance
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What is the Open University?
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What is the Open University?
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Is it a Proper University?
YES
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Our Students and Alumni
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The Open University
“The Open University was the world’s first successful distance teaching university, founded on the belief that communications technology could bring high quality degree-level learning to people who had not had the opportunity to attend traditional campus universities.”
• Right from the start the OU adopted a radical open admissions policy, while attaining the highest standards of scholarship. It was a model which proved extremely popular with the public.
• When the OU accepted its first students in 1971, 25,000 people enrolled and 20,000 registered on a course – at a time when the total student population in the UK was only about 130,000.
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How it works?
“The Open University was the world’s first successful distance teaching university, founded on the belief that communications technology could bring high quality degree-level learning to people who had not had the opportunity to attend traditional campus universities.”
• Right from the start the OU adopted a radical open admissions policy, while attaining the highest standards of scholarship. It was a model which proved extremely popular with the public.
• When the OU accepted its first students in 1971, 25,000 people enrolled and 20,000 registered on a course – at a time when the total student population in the UK was only about 130,000.
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How it works?
• “The OU teaches through its own unique method of distance learning, called ‘supported open learning’, which is:
• Flexible – students work where and when they choose to fit in with jobs, families and other commitments
• All-inclusive – students get all the high quality materials they need to study
• Supportive – personal tutors provide academic expertise, guidance and feedback and run group tutorials; and specialist advisers are on hand to help with other aspects of OU study
• Social – students get together at tutorials, day schools and informal study groups; and through online conferencing, study networks and course forums
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How it works?
Course production
• Our modules are developed by multi-disciplinary course teams comprising:
• Academics, educational technologists and media specialists contributing pedagogic and technical expertise
• Respected academics from other universities working alongside OU colleagues
• External examiners
• This model has helped to build the University's reputation for innovation, rigour and quality and has been adopted by distance teaching institutions worldwide.
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Overview
• 187,338 students – biggest University in the UK and Ireland
• 91% satisfaction rate
• 5,000 staff and 6,000 Associate lecturers
• Over 73% of OU students work full or part-time during their studies
• The average age of new undergraduate OU students is 29
• 9% of our new students are over 50
• We are the largest provider of higher education for people with disabilities:
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Overview
• We offer 408 undergraduate modules, 162 postgraduate modules, 15 overseas versions and 15 curriculum partnerships
• 12,717 OU students are studying at postgraduate level
• 22,722 OU MBA graduates active in 91 countries
• 80% of FTSE 100 companies have sponsored staff on OU courses
• 77% of our students are studying to increase their career or employment prospects
• 30,000 employers including RTE, Pfizer, Boston Scientific, Aer Lingus, Gas Networks Ireland, Houses of the Oireachtas, AWAS have used the OU to develop their staff
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Overview
• In April 2012 the OU became the first university in Europe to reach more than one million subscriptions through the new iTunes U App (launched in January 2012).
• The OU’s extensive material on iTunes U has had 66 million downloads by nearly 10 million visitors (February 2014).
• OpenLearn, a free learning resources website from the OU, has had 23 million visits since its launch in 2006. The site averages 400,000 unique visitors a month and has around 11,000 hours of learning materials including 8,000 hours taken from our undergraduate and postgraduate modules.
• The OU is YouTube EDU’s largest UK university channel with 1,600 videos that have received 21 million views by 10.8 million visitors (February 2014)
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Overview
• In the UK’s last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) The Open University was ranked in the top third of UK higher education institutions
• 50% of OU research was assessed in the RAE as internationally excellent or above, with 14% being world leading
• In 2012/13 the OU attracted more than £14.7m in research grants and contracts
• Around 26,000 research publications are recorded on Open Research Online (ORO), one of the largest and fastest-growing research collections in the UK. 25% of these are Open Access
• Since July 2008, there have been more than 2.2 million downloads of Open Access content from ORO
• ORO ranks 6th among UK HEIs, and 49th in the world, in terms of deposits and activity (Ranking Web of Repositories)
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My journey so far…