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Are they any good? Or am I better off pursuing one at an actual uni?

Let's say I want to do psychology for example. And I'm after a degree.

If you are talking about M.O.O.C.s, they are good for personal enrichment, but not much else...

In the states you can take on line courses for credit if your university offers them. Next, term I'm taking all my classes online because of some health issues....

Personally, I like on campus classes better.

I'm not sure online courses have been around long enough to answer your question yet. They are so new that they haven't established themselves one way or the other as being a replacement for traditional big-dollar degrees, but also haven't proved to be worthless. I'm sort of waiting to see if anything can break the hegemony of the big-dollar educational institutions over education and degrees.

Online degrees are generally a joke, but it's not because of the online format as much as the overpriced, low-quality product mostly from for-profit schools. Most online degrees are fluff, and the ones that seem serious (like information technology) are still watered-down versions of traditional degrees with much less rigor. If someone could create a rigorous, comprehensive online degree, the for-profit education industry could collapse. (Good riddance.)

So time will tell. Stay tuned!

I have completed an online course with Reid Kerr, on 'Introduction to Counselling', am now doing an Open Uni course called 'Understanding the Autism Spectrum', and am planning to continue studying psychology. So far I have found the courses extremely informative and enjoyable, with enough support. That's just my experience though. I hope this helps.