Classroom vs Live Online

I used to attend live online classes with LSBF and they were pretty good. You get a live online class of about 2 hours and live revision was about 2.5 hours. Yes, it was pretty effective. LSBF lectures are quite well known for engaging the student and keep it lively.

Like Gabriel I studied with LSBF. If you do their live lectures you get the online stuff for free.

Some feedback:

1) The lecturers are usually the same people that run the live classes. So their best lecturers (who in my opinion are very good). All the lecturers I had do try and engage you in the lecture as they would in a class room.

2) You get the same amount of lectures as you would live (either 8 or 10 lectures, depending on subject) and they last about the same amount of time.

3) In addition they have a couple of Q+A sessions. Where you raise points you are unclear on.

4) In addition to the live lectures you get the recorded lectures as backup. Depending on the subject they may be a little dated as most were recorded a couple of years ago.

5) You can ask questions as the lecturer takes place. They have someone off-screen who answers some of the question in order to not stop the flow, but the lecturer does stop at points and looks at questions asked and replies to most.

6) All lectures are recorded so you can catch up, obviously you cannot ask questions – well you can but you will not get an answer!

7) I recently took P5 and there was around 20 people logged in to ask questions. People did seem friendly and helpful.

Some negatives:

1) A couple of lectures had technical faults and started 10-15 minutes late.

2) Because they are worldwide broadcasts the times of the lectures was not ideal for me (usually they start between 5pm-6pm UK time, so I could not get home in time). About half I watched as back up.

3) Typing a question can be harder than asking in class. However, I found it was good practice for the exam, in that it forces you to be understood with short sentences