Connect with DCU for a digital edge
As a world leader in digital education for 25 years, DCU has enabled thousands of people living throughout Ireland, and beyond, to upskill and advance their careers by studying fully online through DCU Connected.
DCU has a long history of fully online education well before the Covid-19 pandemic. Did you know that DCU has been offering distance education since 1982? This was the year the National Distance Education Centre was established at DCU and ever since the University has been committed to providing wider access to higher education through flexible learning pathways.
The term DCU Connected helps to convey that in today’s new digital world students can be connected to DCU wherever they live. Through DCU Connected people with limited time or opportunity to study in-place on a DCU campus, can pursue part-time online study with flexibility that fits their life. Importantly, DCU Connected programmes make it possible to continue to learn and earn from anywhere, with potential to take you everywhere. We have many stories of students who began their study through DCU Connected when living in Ireland, and as new career opportunities arose were able to stay connected, and complete their DCU degree, from anywhere in the world.
As one of the world’s top ranked young universities, a DCU degree is internationally recognised and importantly our online programmes have the same status and meet the same high-quality standards as any other DCU qualification. DCU was also named the Sunday Times University of the Year 2021. We offer the only online degree in Psychology that is accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI), which ensures that the programme meets the highest standards. Moreover, DCU is the only Irish university that applies the internationally recognised Quality Matters (QM) standards to the design and delivery of our online programmes. These standards adopted by the world’s leading online providers, including our US partner Arizona State University, ensure that students can have confidence in the quality of DCU Connected programmes.
Notably, over 85 per cent of our online students ranked the quality of digital learning on their DCU Connected course as good, excellent or best imaginable in the 2018 International Student Digital Experience Tracker Survey.
DCU is known around the world for our innovation and leadership in the design of online education. The National Institute for Digital Learning in DCU hosts a team of experts spread across specialised labs and units each dedicated to innovation in the science, craft and design of learning experiences. Mostly recently we have been helping onboard hundreds of learners new to online learning via our Digital Edge: Essentials for the Online Learner course. We want to bring you on a study journey with us. All you need to do is take the first step.
