{"id":613,"date":"2009-01-27T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-01-27T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T13:56:29","slug":"distance-learning-courses-in-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Distance learning courses in Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone out there had any experience with distance learning courses in Mathematics?\u00a0 I would like to fill in the gaps in my mathematical knowledge and courses offered by institutions such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcs.open.ac.uk\/\">Open University<\/a> look perfect but I was wondering what alternatives there are out there.<\/p>\n<p>I know that there are many alternatives to doing a paid course &#8211; For example, I could just read books or I could drop in on some maths lectures at the university where I work.\u00a0 I already do this sort of thing and I find it difficult to stay focused on any particular topic.\u00a0 I tend to start a month thinking about number theory, move on to a bit of statistics and then end up considering problems in global optimization!<\/p>\n<p>The end result is that I know a little about a lot but I want to try and get more depth to my learning and the thought of a looming exam does wonders for my concentration.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;What I am after is distance learning courses run by accredited institutions (No <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diploma_mill\">diploma mills<\/a> please) that offer lots of modules which will (eventually) lead\u00a0 to some sort of qualification.\u00a0 Exams are a must!\u00a0 One important criterion is that the course must be part time &#8211; I simply don&#8217;t have time to work through a one-year masters course.\u00a0 The ability to be able to take individual modules (rather than the whole degree or nothing) would also be desirable.<\/p>\n<p>As for academic level &#8211; I guess anything from undergraduate upwards will be fine.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone out there had any experience with distance learning courses in Mathematics?\u00a0 I would like to fill in the gaps in my mathematical knowledge and courses offered by institutions such as the Open University look perfect but I was wondering what alternatives there are out there. I know that there are many alternatives to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-math"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-9T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}