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Oxford College of Garden Design

Producing the country's top garden designers since 1992

Online Garden Design Diploma Courses
2 Year Distance Learning Course

You can now train as a garden designer from home, wherever you are in the world via our two year online interactive diploma course  which utilises the latest web-based technologies.

There's a lot of  misconception regarding the word online. This course is not a gardening correspondence course, but a true virtual classroom giving you the next best thing to attending the lectures in person.

You will participate via on-line video tutorials which you download direct to your computer and you will be allocated your own personal tutor.
This two-year distance learning course offers:
  • Interactive video tutorials and audio lectures.
  • A personal tutor
  • Community-based learning in the "virtual classroom", enabling students to talk with their tutors and fellow students via web chat and our online forums.
  • Audio Lectures to listen to on iPod/phone/MP3 player
  • Online gallery – enabling you to share ideas & feedback on your designs, planting plans, gardening, construction drawings with fellow students.
  • Monthly webinars - live video streams  with question and answer sessions.

You can finish your interactive online garden design course in just 12 months and this would require a minimum of 25 hours of study a week, but we expect most students to take 18-24 months to complete it.

This is why you will have tutored support for all online distance learning material for two years from the course start date.

You will be able to listen to your lectures as many times as you wish so as to maximise your learning potential, and you will even be able to listen to audio lectures on your iPod/phone/MP3 player while out and about or in the car.

Our interactive online garden design courses are also available to existing classroom taught students, giving them the flexibility of distance learning to revisit  lecturers online at any time, as well as overseas students, or those unable to travel, giving them the next best thing to live studio lectures via interactive video tutorials delivered via the internet. 

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Next Course Start date
30th September 2010

Click here to enrol

Places are limited and are allocated on a first come first serve basis.
(If accepted, enrolment requires a £500 deposit with the remaining fee payable 4 weeks before the start date)

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Example of Students Work
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Diploma Course Advantages
Free 4 Day Intro Class...Free CAD Course...Free VectorWorks Software...Free membership of the Society of Garden Designers...Free drawing equipment...Free Sketchup software...Free Office software...Free Graduate Mentoring.
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