Online course at Oxford University

[carmay]

The online courses at Oxford make mention of furthering one's education at the Open University. I will have to look into it. I know it's expensive. Any course I take online is expensive since I don't live in the EU (wish I did). I can't find anything in the US that would let me focus on British history. I can take Chinese history or South American history, but nothing on British history. I'm thinking way ahead here, but I think perhaps I'd like to find a program where I could do much of the coursework online, and then perhaps attend a summer school session in England. I can well imagine that there are so many more resources available over there.

I keep saying I want to return to Salford and go to the Salford Historical Society. There are so few books written on Salford. Since that is where my Mom was born and where the majority of my family tree is located, I would love to learn more about the city itself and its history. I was there when I was 11, before they rebuilt it all and still remember the bombed out buildings. I have to search through photographs that I have here to see what I can find

Carole

[carmay]

Unfortunately, one cannot take courses at the Open University if you live in the US. I was looking at their Master's in Local History, but it's not offered to students in the US. So I'm still looking for an online university where I can do coursework towards a Master's in History specializing in the history of England.

Carole

[griz]

Hi Carole,  let us know if you find what you are looking for. I think there must be quite a demand for  online accredited courses for master's degrees.

 The  numbers of retired people in the  population  of UK, USA, Canada, & Australia etc  must  present great opportunities for Universities, one would think,   to expand their online offerings.  Many retired people will want to study for personal growth and satisfaction, and I am sure many will want scholarly, accredited,  and, hopefully, affordable courses.

Re Victorian London
 'London Labour and the London Poor' by Henry Mayhew, is an excellent work packed with information. There are several volumes and they have wonderful old engravings in them. I found a couple of volumes in a 2nd hand book shop.

I haven't explored this online version,  but it might be of interest: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp23257

[Ruskie]

Carole, I don't think you can take that Oxford Uni course unless you live in the UK or Europe - nor any UK based Open Uni courses as you've discovered.

I did have a look for courses a while ago but as I'm in Australia I wasn't eligible to enrol in anything in UK. Like you I'm interested in Brit based learning and courses ....

[susano]

Have you looked into the offerings of the University of Phoenix?  My late husband used to teach online classes for them.

http://www.phoenix.edu/

Susan

[silvery]

If you want to get started on knowing about the Tudor period you could make a start on non-accredited courses.   It would interest you and keep you occupied, as you say.

This sounds as though it may fit the bill

http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2010/12/01/online-tudor-courses/

and the link for the course (the link is also on the page of the above)

http://www.suite101.com/course.cfm/17123/seminar

You could also get the books by Antonia Fraser and Alison Weir, The six wives of Henry VIIIth.   I read them both together one year, to see how they differed.   They are $8 and $12 each from amazon.

The Lara Eakins site is excellent.  I think she is based in Texas. 

Exeter takes international students.

[Ruskie]

Exeter takes international students.

I couldn't see any mention on their website that they have online courses for international students?

[silvery]

Hi Ruskie,   mmmh   maybe I just read 'international students' and misunderstood.   Just looking for something now, and it may be that it's information for students going there from another country.  Sorry to mislead anyone. 

(found it)  This is what I saw

http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/pages.php?id=223

but looks like the courses are non-accredited. 

[carmay]

Carole, I don't think you can take that Oxford Uni course unless you live in the UK or Europe - nor any UK based Open Uni courses as you've discovered.

I did have a look for courses a while ago but as I'm in Australia I wasn't eligible to enrol in anything in UK. Like you I'm interested in Brit based learning and courses ....

I can take the ones at Oxford. I just have to pay almost twice what someone in the UK would pay.

Carole