Telescope Reviews: On the subject of online astronomy courses....

There are not very many. For accredited university courses, try: University of Lancashire: http://www.studyastronomy.com; Swinburne University (Australia): http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/welcome2.html; James Cook University (Australia): http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/mathphys/astronomy/index.shtml Jodrell Bank (University of Manchester) offers this one: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/distance/. These courses offer either a degree or credit that can be applied to studies in other programs. Here's a list that includes several on-campus courses that offer some online components: http://home.eckerd.edu/~hudsonrl/chn/sitescol.html. This is more general; most of these have already been covered, and some should be taken with a grain of salt: http://www.worldwidelearn.com/astronomy.htm. The Open University offers online courses, but they are limited to citizens of the UK and some European countries (such as Switzerland and Slovenia): http://www.open.ac.uk/science/short/; http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?Q02B27_science. (This would lead to a BSc with a major in astronomy).

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Edited by Victor Kennedy (07/15/03 03:33 AM)