THE ONLINE LEARNING ZONE

Study Geology online at your own pace with expert support

• We offer a range of Geology courses aimed at adults and students. Courses are designed to encourage you to find out more about aspects of Earth science.

• Many of the courses include live Zoom sessions.

• The courses are supported by a forum intended to encourage lively dailogue with others undertaking the same course.

• You can undertake the online course at your own pace but have the ongoing support of a tutor with comprehsive knowledge and experience of geology.

• View the course details from the links on the right...

Introduction to our distance learning courses

Our team of Chris Darmon and Colin Schofield have been delivering online courses for more than 10 years. With the onset of the Covid pandemic in 2020 they developed these further with live Zoom sessions forming a central part of the offering.
They now have a large bank of courses which they can draw on as well as devising completely new material. The style is informal and inclusive with everyone encouraged to participate, but with absolutely no demands made on people. There’s no assessment or forms to fill in!
This page is subject to change as new courses are added so please bookmark and revisit or keep up to date with our popular quarterly earth science magazine "Down to Earth".

What’s on offer?

Rocks from the pressure cooker: Metamorphic rocks & processes

The course is all about the process of metamorphism and the metamorphic rocks that result. Metamorphism has a reputation for being hard to understand and has often been poorly taught. Our principle aim is to make the process easy to understand and appreciate, without recourse to complex issues around chemistry and physics or the use of lots of terminology. Metamorphism can be understood by a nyone with a broad understanding of the basics of geology and most importantly, can be fun! We’ll be making much of cooking analogies in our quest to make metamorphism easy to understand.