Centre for Open Education
Distance Education
Distance Education Units
The responsibilities of the Centre include the organisation and distribution of the various forms of teaching materials (including CD Rom) to students on a weekly basis, the electronic registration, receipt, and return of all distance education assignments, and the production of the schedule of on-campus sessions as well as field trips for distance education units. Another special interest of the Centre is also the delivery of independent learning units as an improved method of teaching, in which distance-teaching techniques can be combined with regular face-to-face contact to provide a more flexible 'Multi Modal 'attendance pattern.
Evening Units
In some evening units, attendance
requirements are reduced by the
substitution of CD for scheduled lectures. Evening students in those
units may borrow the CD's from the Centre or listen to them in the
Library in lieu of attendance at lectures scheduled during the daytime.
In addition, the Centre arranges the distribution of teaching
materials and assignments for some evening units, with other services
arranged on an individual basis to meet a variety of needs, especially
those of disadvantaged and disabled students.
Student Support
Distance education and evening students are encouraged to contact the Centre's Manager of Distance Education Student Services to discuss problems related to study, contact with lecturers or any other difficulties which affect students with reduced access to the functions of the University. Students requiring assistance may telephone or write to Ms Pepi Weinrauch; X5B level 1, Centre for Open Education, Macquarie University 2109; tel: (02) 9850 7470 (with voice mail service); fax: (02) 9850 7480; e-mail: coe@mq.edu.au .During teaching periods the Centre is open:
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8.30am-6.30pm Mondays to Thursdays - first two weeks of semester only
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8.30am- 5.30pm Mondays to Thursdays during teaching periods
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8.30am-5.00pm Fridays
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8.00am-11.00am on most Saturdays
Outside teaching periods the hours are normally 8.30am-5.00pm Monday to Friday.