..So I have heard a few things about distance education and Charles Sturt, just wondering if anyone has undertaken post graduate studies via distance?
Thanks
When you get into postgraduate study especially at the level of masters and Ph.D, distance is really not a concept that should worry anyone because you don't really attend "classes" no matter what university you attend. At that level of study you're doing research under supervision which means you can do it anywhere.
The benefit of having a supervisor at CSU is that the supervisor knows how to teach / supervise at a distance because they deal with it on a daily basis with their undergraduate students. You might not get the same level of communication at other universities.
Distance Education is something CSU does extremely well and this is why the university doesn't need to operate as part of organisations such as Open Universities. In fact Open Universities likely replicate a lot of the structures CSU developed over the last 15 years.