OERu learner support/Studying courses/Getting help

OERu courses are created for self directed study.

This does not mean however, that you are on your own.

In this section, we distinguish between general support and course specific support.

General support
General support resources and associated forums are used for non-course related queries.

Helping others
As a volunteer support community, if you know the answer to a question, help your peers by posting a useful response.

You may be surprised, but helping others will reinforce your learning too, so you will be helping yourself as well as a sister/fellow learner. And who knows they may reciprocate and help you in return.

Another valuable contribution is to "like" good posts and responses by clicking on the "heart" under a post. This will help users and site moderators in identifying useful contributions using the "wisdom of the crowd".

Course forums
If you have a course related question your first stop should be the respective course forum.

The course forum URL is always given in the Start here page which is under the Startup menu.

Ways to find the general forum for your course:


 * 1) From the homepage on the forums.oeru.org site, click on the search magnifying glass and use the course code plus "general" as your search term, for example: "LiDA101 general".
 * 2) From the homepage on the forums.oeru.org site, click on the "all categories" pull down menu, select the courses category. Then select the "all in courses" sub-category to find your course listing.
 * 3) Alternatively you can go directly to the course forum with a URL like this: https://forums.oeru.org/tags/lida101 where lida101 would be replaced by your course code.

Select the forum called "General forum ..." to ask any question about the course. Note there are also forums for specific parts of the course which you will be directed to as you go through the course.