Open University edinburgh

The OU gave me the opportunity to retrain in the field of computer science, while also working full-time and having a family, and I will be eternally grateful to them for this. The teaching and assessment have generally been of a high quality (although I think the OU could also adopt some of the things that make MOOCs work so well too, e.g. recorded lectures broken into 15 min segements), and I would recommend it to everyone.

Poor quality materials, inaccurate information and very poor support and organisation. Absolutely pathetic for the price

Most of the biggest University the Open University of Scotland because the University of exercise facilities all over the student and international student first of all their huge biggest University in Europe

The Open University in Scotland discriminates against those with a disability. Reasonable adjustments as defined in the Equality Act 2010 mean nothing to them. The blind following of regulation is all the OU in Scotland care for.

Absolutely appalling registration process, the credit transfer is ridiculously long winded and they deliberately deduct credits lowering your value of units studied elsewhere so that you have to resit and pay again for the same units with them very discriminatory and stressful process been trying to sort since January spoke to numerous staff and on every call information given is contracting to the previous calls absolutely sick and fed up they wasted a year of my study and definitely discriminate against disabilities

Overpriced compared to 'normal university' on a course by course basis (partner is doing a distance learning MSc at strathclyde and courses are £200 cheaper). Communication is abysmal, constantly get we will endeavour to respond in 3-5 working days email responses, often takes weeks after that. Courses are contradictory in material, unfinished, riddled with grammatical, spelling and poorly cited material. Marking practices are awful, unexplained and tutor often incorrect and have to appeal marks. Avoid and go to a 'real uni' if you can. Money and time wasted.

very very poor lecturing.... after submitting my essay over 6 weeks ago now i still have had nothing sent back to me! appalling to say the least!

The quality of O.U courses have drastically declined during the past decade. Lack of support from tutors and the O.U, errors in materials. Materials are spartan considering the cost of the modules. You can wait weeks for a reply from your tutor. There are far better and cheaper alternatives to the O.U, sadly. Check out Edx and Udacity for their micodegrees which are far superior to O.U equivalents.