More joined up Student Support. When you submit a question it is distributed to the appropriate sun-section, but then you receive support from several disparate section with no-one actually co-ordinating a complete and comprehensive answer. The various sections providing the individual answers do not feed back to a central point to provide a complete answer to the initial question.

Taught completely on-line. The impression is that you are expected to get on with the learning process fairly independently. Sometimes if my feels very isolating. There is always the overwhelming fear that if you speak to other OU students you will be penalised.

No

As it is a distance learning, I can do it from home in my own time, and the fees are lower as well, reducing my overall cost.

More actual lectures--can be done online, but the tutorial sessions are not 'lectured' based.

No