Dumfries & Galloway College

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Dumfries & Galloway College is a further education college in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, with campuses in Dumfries and Stranraer. It offers a wide range of courses, including business, computing, construction, creative industries, education, engineering, hairdressing, beauty and complimentary therapies, health and social studies, hospitality and sports and recreation. In 2008 their campus moved from Heathhall to its new campus, which shares its library with the University of the West of Scotland.

Its web site is http://www.dumgal.ac.uk

e-learning

Distance learning

The college offers a number of courses through distance learning: http://www.dumgal.ac.uk/site/business/cts/ol/opendistance-learning

Online learning for on-campus students

The college's libraries both give students access to online resources:

http://www.dumgal.ac.uk/site/content/students/library-dumfries

http://www.dumgal.ac.uk/site/content/students/library-stranraer

Open Educational Resources (OER)

No evidence found of OERs.

VLE

Moodle is the VLE at Dumfries and Galloway College (http://www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/case_studies/docs/DumGall_EduApps.pdf).

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumfries_%26_Galloway_College

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