Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen

Strange as it may sound, with me being in Denmark, I've actually done a couple of Open University courses.

Works great if you have the diciplin to follow a university level course on your own, with teacher feedback perhaps 4 times during each course.
At the time I took the courses they had, and I expect they still do, online forums for each course so students could discuss things with each other, which could be a real help for some.

For people who don't know what we're talking about, The Open University is the largest distance learning university in the UK, with a full range of studies.
They collaborate with the BBC which means that such parts of the course material that requires visualisation is sent to the students by being broadcast by BBC a couple of times each so the students can record it to watch when it becomes relevant during the course, this also means that anyone interested can watch hours of university level study material every day, which can be quite inspiring for a curious mind.

If the discussions here can have a similar effect, that would be wonderful.