Can anyone recommend a distance learning company?

oddbunny

Hi all,
I want to train to be a web designer on a small level, cottage industry style and am looking to find a correspondence course.

I can see there a loads of companies offering courses but it's hard to work out which company is reputable. Learn Direct look good but I don't want to be swayed just because they advertise on telly!

I wondered if anyone had used distance learning companies and how you got on with them?

Thanks everyone!

Jarndyce

Learn Direct is just an umberella portal for other providers, it is not a provider in itself. It is (or was) government funded to signpost people for post 16 distance learning.

JoungandNaive

Hello there. I have did a bit of research...and you Distance Education.org has a variety of courses and universities !!

You can also see people ranking the courses and the Unis

DCFC79

If i was wanting to do long distance learning id look at the OU

oddbunny

Thanks for that - althought unfortunately these are American universities but I appreciate you taking the time to reply

WhatsNew

oddbunny wrote: »

Hi all,
I want to train to be a web designer on a small level, cottage industry style and am looking to find a correspondence course.

I can see there a loads of companies offering courses but it's hard to work out which company is reputable. Learn Direct look good but I don't want to be swayed just because they advertise on telly!

I wondered if anyone had used distance learning companies and how you got on with them?

Thanks everyone!

A good starting point would be to visit alison they have lots of courses which you can study for free, there is advertising displayed and if you want a cert at end you will have to pay a small fee but you probably do not need a cert in any case. A friend of mine found a web design course there and found it helpful, I studied an excel course and bought a cert for about £12 I think.

flexrider

I Would recomend open university courses online learning, How i got started in It and Website devolopment/E commeracial and languages. Never looked back now got myself plenty of businesses now and doing well from it

Cheers