The below statement was taken from the UNE website...

The below statement was taken from the UNE website:
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"How does distance education work?

Instead of turning up to a lecture on-campus at a designated time, the course content is provided online for you to access when it suits you each week. It might be a podcast (recorded lecture), a set of readings, questions posed in a discussion board, an online quiz or a video. Students access this content through myUNE, which is UNE s online learning portal, on a platform called Moodle. Your lecturer will guide you through the unit with a weekly plan of study, as well as checking in on the discussion boards or forums. You can also communicate with teaching staff via email, online chat or the phone. All UNE units are presented online, but some also provide supplementary material in hard copy where necessary."
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In my experience I have never (ever) had a pod cast, recorded lecture, questions posed as a discussion or a video for any of my units and I'm currently studying an I.T. degree, if they can't get it right then good luck to the rest of the departments.... In my experience so far distance education at UNE is an utter joke, the material being taught is over 7 years old (in most cases) and delivered as a pdf each week (or sometimes as one document at the start of the course) so much for student / teacher interaction...

Honestly UNE advertises how good they are at distance education so how about they get serious about it and start providing recorded lectures (LIKE THEY SAY THEY DO), until this happens I highly recommend you steer clear from studying externally or you will inevitably regret it!