Welcome to the UK Aid SPHEIR programme Transformation by Innovation in Distance Education (TIDE) collection of online course for higher education students.

TIDE is a four year project led by The Open University in the United Kingdom which aims to improve the quality of higher education in Myanmar at a critical time in the country’s development. You can read more about the TIDE project at https://www.spheir.org.uk/partnership-profiles/transformation-innovation-distance-education.

One part of the work of TIDE is to help support the introduction of online courses into the distance education programmes offered in Myanmar. This site has been set up with free online courses taken from The Open University that cover some basic skills and capabilities that we believe students learning online will need to have. We have begun to adapt these courses to be more relevant to the Myanmar context however you will notice that they are UK-centric in part but the principles and skills involved are universal.

The courses that are available or coming soon are as follows:

• Get started with online learning
• Am I ready to study in English?
• Am I ready to be a distance learner?
• Digital skills, digital learning

We want current higher education students in Myanmar to study these courses and complete both the start-of-course and end-of-course surveys associated with them. This feedback will help the TIDE partners support universities in Myanmar in transforming their distance education programmes as they begin to develop online courses.

To study one or more of these courses you need to create an account on this site which you can learn how to do by watching this video. Most of all we hope you find the courses themselves both interesting and helpful to yourselves.