Digital Study Skills

This online programme will help you to develop your digital literacy skills and help you prepare to study in an online environment.

It’s a good place to start if you want to develop essential computer skills needed in tertiary study.

When you successfully complete this course you will be able to:

• Use digital tools in an online distance learning community
• Collaborate ethically in an online distance learning community
• Construct a personal online distance learning plan to support future study pathways
• Demonstrate effective use of computer software in study contexts.

Open Polytechnic is New Zealand's leader in online and distance learning.

What’s our distance learning difference? It’s the almost 30,000 students who join us each year to study and achieve their career and personal goals.

It’s Open Polytechnic being New Zealand’s specialist distance learning provider for over 70 years. 

All our students study by distance.

Distance learning is what we do.

Our programmes are designed exclusively for distance learning. Our online courses include a range of rich content to engage you – readings, videos, interactive elements, case studies, quizzes and activities, and forums.

Our academic staff are experts at teaching by distance learning. It’s what they do.

They will be with you every step of the way to encourage you, and ensure you understand the course content. They will help you gain the skills and knowledge you need, so that you can succeed.

If you need other support or help, we’ve got a range of people here for you. 

With Open Polytechnic, you’re not alone.