Any proof to back your claim, or is it really from your experience? Don't ever overlook good working experience most OUM students have, this is one of their plus points.

In fact, a good number of professors, associate professors, and senior lecturers from my campus are teaching OUM classes as their part-time. Are these established academics "any Tom, Jim and Harry" too?

Part-time courses by other universities also impose loose entry requirements. Indolent part-time (and some full-time) students are everywhere and not only in OUM.

Most importantly, I don't think there's any such "bad university". There are only bad-performing graduates that didn't do well in their courses and can't manage to sell themselves well.

This post has been edited by average.joe: Sep 20 2007, 10:07 AM

Were you one of the students there, or a tutor?

So you doubt any higher-ranking full-time lecturers will teach OUM classes. In fact, my faculty is one of the instruction centres for OUM. The instructors are no other than well-qualified lecturers of my faculty during designated days within every month. My colleague's father, an associate professor, teaches OUM class part-time.

I myself doubt the overall teaching quality in OUM, but to say that there isn't any well-qualified instructors teaching the classes is not 100% correct either, but they are in a minority in comparison to total instructors OUM has. And as far as I know, not 100% of the class time during the semester is taught by these well-qualified lecturers. The rest will go for those less-qualified tutors you talked about, I think.

This post has been edited by average.joe: Sep 20 2007, 12:27 PM

USM Engineering Campus, to be clear. They got classes and even labs here.

I afraid it's you who didn't read my points carefully. I meant those BETTER lecturers for OUM classes are somehow in a minority, the rest are questionable at best. I have even pointed out that only a fraction of their time goes under these better lecturers (i.e. the ones from my campus as example), while during the larger portion of their time, they have mediocre instruction from those sub-standard tutors.

Do read my statements again.

This post has been edited by average.joe: Sep 20 2007, 04:41 PM

I don't think he/she really hates OUM, where he/she gained some experience. I believe he/she is just speaking up his/her mind based on his/her experience.