The department has a broad portfolio of HND, undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD courses, all of which use RBL to some extent. All degree courses at Nottingham Trent are now modular. This enables students who cannot obtain release in working hours to take the course in their own by using flexi-time and holidays.
Many students also pay their own fees.
The personal commitment of time and money make this a highly motivated student group. Over the past six years, the Head of Department allocated units of the course to each member of the course team to write. Many of the units are also adapted for use on other courses in the university, as well as for extended CPD work. In most cases staff worked from their own original lecture material, which they converted RBL, relying heavily on their own experiences as distance learners, especially on Open University courses. Staff in the franchised colleges are treated as members of an enlarged course team and encouraged to comment on the course materials and to help to improve them.