Wouldn’t recommend
I really didn’t enjoy studying with open colleges. From the beginning there were links in assessments that were old and no longer worked. As were there links that didn’t work in the assessment helpers. This just showed the lack of time taken to ensure that assessments stayed current. As I got further into my course I realised how unreliable the assessor were. One would say one thing was wrong but the other would say something else was wrong and what the first said was wrong was actually fine. There was no consistency. I also found that the questions never explained in enough detail what the assessor wanted to see. There was many occasions were the assessments were sent back saying ‘you haven’t included .......’ when the question never asked for anything of the sort. Consistency was definitely not something that was shown. There were many assessor who couldn’t have cared to help and that was frustrating and very disappointing. It says marking of assessments takes no more then 10 working day. Many times it took weeks and sometimes months. There is definitely a lot to be worked on. It took 2 months after finishing my work placement to get my workplace assessor to come out even though I had been trying to organise it for months beforehand. Once they finally came out I had to chase her for her report so that I was able to complete my course. Once everything was said and done, I had to call them to find out where my certificate once.