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Open Polytechnic

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Open Polytechnic

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Official page of Open Polytechnic, New Zealand's specialist provider of open and distance learning.

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Studying by distance offers more choice and more control over what, how, when and where you learn.

Open means you can study when and where it suits you– you do your own planning to fit your study around the rest of your life, and you can study part-time or full-time.

Distance means you don’t need to come to classes or attend tutorials or lectures. In most courses, we send the learning material to you and you work through it, then send your work back to us for marking and feedback.

We support our students through additional learning resources on our Online Campus. To check it out go to: http://campus.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/moodle/

Address: 3 Cleary Street, Lower Hutt 5011
Phone: 0508650200
State: Lower Hutt
Zip Code: 5011


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Reviews
Attempting to study with them online is futile; you'll find yourself devoid of the expected support, particularly when seeking guidance for your coursework or reviewing assessments. Unlike physical institutes, the assistance you anticipate will often be lacking. My counsel to those contemplating studying is to opt for either an offline institution or seek out another online platform that can offer proper guidance. At Open Polytechnic, accountability for tutor or marker errors is seldom acknowledged, leaving you with mounting frustrations and disappointment.
I wouldn't recommend studying with open polytechnic! The student support was poor, getting ahold of lectures in a private message was deemed impossible! And felt that my grades should of been stronger than what they were, I still passed. Auckland university sets more of a high standard for learning or MIT is just as good as Auckland university. Also was just advised that I don't get a certificate for completing a diploma in a specific area of chosen study, and it doesn't show your NZQA Record of achievement... lift your game open polytechnic! You are a let down on students who areactually trying to better th
I'm studying the NZ Certificate in Adult and Tertiary Teaching. Have studied with three other providers by distance, OP is head and shoulders about the rest. The content quality is good and the interaxtive activities are great and make the course really engaging. The platform is by far the ost intuitive abd easiest to mavigate of all the ones I've experienced. The facilitator has also been excellent. The weekly emails provide great information and keep you on track. He's also super fast to respond to messages. I couldn't recommend OP more highly.
I was really hoping this was the start of something new for me but it was not.The website states they are "here to help" but if you fail to understand something in the course its up to you to find help mostly google or youtube was quite pathetic and disappointing when my course leader told me to come back next year once i got the grasp of it,i thought the whole reason of the course was to learn?
Just a few courses left to complete my Diploma in Construction quantity surveying. It's impossible to fail because you get a second chance to resubmit assignments if your score is below 50%. Staffs are awesome and the online library grants you access to scholarly papers in all fields across the globe, not just your chosen program. Loads of freebie computer software including MS office + student card that gets you discount for pizza etc. Only drawback is that you can't go partying with other students so it feels a bit lonely studying on your own
I will try to be objective about this college, although the overall impression: it's not worth your time and money. I've just finished studying Web development course here and here's my experience pros and cons: Pros: - Overall easy to enroll and start studying online. The whole course is fully online and can be taken anywhere. There are no exams at least in my course, instead there are three assignment works for each paper. - Definitely hard to fail. You get 2 automatic extensions for each assignment. If your mark is below 50% you get a chance to redo. Assignment task is 90% covered by the course material. Cons: - Course materials are just plain text readings. You just have to read and read and read. - The material is mostly brief. If you really wand to get in depth of the subject then you have to google most of it. - Surprisingly lots of mistakes in the course materials. It seems that at some point the material was ok, but then it was updated and wasn't proof-read after updating. Some parts don't match together, mistakes make it impossible to understand. Even if you point out the mistake to the tutor it may take weeks to correct and obviously its no longer valuable to you. For the programming course it was crucial that code didn't work because of the mistakes in the course materials or even parts of it missing. - And the biggest con of all: lack of support! You are just left on your own with the course material readings. If you don't understand something, theoretically there is and option to ask the tutor, but the reply takes from a few days to a week. The reply sometimes is not valuable because the tutor may not have understood the essence of your question. It's difficult to ask something about the code that doesn't work if you can't show this code. They say the biggest support instrument is the students' community. Ok, each course paper has a message board. The message board is a list of topics. Each topic is open in a new window and then each reply message is open in a new window and then to go back and view another message you have to navigate back to the previous window, wait for it to load up and click to go to the next message. Image how easy it is to browse replies to find an answer. Also there is no search function in the message board section so you have to click on each post to see the content. The topic header can be far from its content, so just open and open again. Oh, and there is no option to right-click and open a topic in a new window, it wont let you. Have to open each topic and then navigate back, then scroll down to where you were and open the next topic. Terrible, aye!? Maybe that's why student rarely use the message board when looking for help. Also when you're an IT student and code doesn't work you have the need to show your code to someone to browse through. The is no option to copy parts of your code to the message board topic. If would be copied as plain text in one line. So imagine when you're doing a task or an assignment you encounter a problem and there's just nobody to help you apart from google. And when you get your assignment marked and returned to you, if there's an error, you get marked down, but there's no solution given. Often the work you've done for one assignment is later used in the next assignment and so your mistake carries over. Summary: I've done two courses here: IT lvl5 certificate and diploma in Web development. I graduated, but I don't know most of the course material because I had nobody to ask when I was stuck and then it carried over and over. Because of the amount of mistakes in the course material and lack of human support I would recommend you to go elsewhere for your qualification options.
Was really disappointed with the Open Polytechnic. I paid for and completed my Diploma in accounting, passed all my exams but when I requested some years later the Diploma you wouldn't grant it as apparently to many years had passed. It shouldn't matter how many years it's been. I did the papers and passed my exams. I complained and just got ignored, I'd never complete another course through Open Poly again.
Great experience...I studied foundation and bridging in 2019-2020, the lady who was my tutor was fantastic! She guided me through out the course, communication was fab This year I enrolled to study BUS301 Business Administration glad to say that I have completed the final assessment task yay! I had to revise and resubmit some tasks and managed to get it right in the 1st attempt of resubmission with the advise and feedback from the assessment markers and tutor. You all deserve credit, I am grateful and appreciate your help,advice and feedback. Course materials are great and studying online is fantastic .I will continue to study here .
For someone in my work and financial situation, OP is the only option for me to study, and that is a shame. Within my programme, there is no teaching involved but rather a series of readings, activities that are not graded and often not even commented upon, and then a few assessments/papers. The reading material is interesting and the platform well-organised, so I justify the money I give to OP for their role as a curator/organiser of significant readings that others have written but not much more. If my employer wasn’t funding my diploma, I would not continue on. I know from experience that online learning can be so much more than this, so it isn’t like OP can’t do better. There are tutors but they don’t do anything except post canned commentary at intervals throughout the term. There’s also an external grader why they need that many people guiding courses where there’s no interaction is beyond me. I do well on my assignments but always get points deducted because the grader would like more development even though I am at or over the word limit - they deduct points when you go too far over the limit. I tried to address this Kafkaesque dilemma with a tutor once but got nowhere. They acknowledged that my point is valid but no change in practice. I feel like a bit of a jerk for continuing on with this qualification. I know I’m good at the work I do, so why do I need to prove it with a graduate diploma? I guess that’s my question to figure out, but seriously, the Open Polytechnic just isn't that good.
Sorry but no I wouldn't recommend. Course was out dated, boring and just overall seemed lazy, the markers comments just seemed copy and paste. I had some things going on and managed to get an extension but couldn't log in, I contacted two different people to get it sorted and nothing. I just gave up in the end because the course wasn't great. Gutted.
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