Distance and e-Learning Options

Sheffield University offers a number of distance and e-learning options. In addition, we are proud to work in conjunction with the Worldwide University Network, an international alliance of prominent higher-education institutions, that also provides distance learning opportunities.

Find out more about the Worldwide University Network at their website

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Benefits of Distance Learning

  • Learn at a time convenient to you.

  • Learn from the comfort of your own home or workplace.

  • Improve your work-life balance.

  • Access high quality resources such as specially commissioned learning materials, books, journals and audio-tapes.

  • Stay in regular contact with tutors and other students through e-mail and online forums, discussions and study sites.

Distance and E-Learning Courses at Sheffield

Advanced Nursing Studies

Cleft Palate Studies

Early Childhood Education

Educational Research

Global Social Policy

Health and Social Care Research

Health Informatics

Language and Communication Impairment in Children

Midwifery/Maternity Care

Modelling and Simulation in Pharmacokinetics & Pharmacodynamics

Music

New Literacies

Occupational Health Nursing

Orthoptics

Probability and Statistics

Psychoanalytic Studies

Psychotherapy Studies

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Speech Difficulties

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The Worldwide University Network

The Worldwide Universities Network partners offer a range of collaboratively delivered masters programmes, allowing students to benefit from specialist expertise at more than one university.

Find out more about distance and e-learning courses at the Worldwide University Network website

Courses at Worldwide University Network Partners

Several WUN partners have major distance and e-learning provision in their own right. For more information use the links below.

University of California, San Diego, USA

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

The Pennsylvania State University, USA

The University of Sydney, Australia

University of Toronto, Canada

University of Washington, USA

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

University of Leeds, UK

The University of York, UK