OUJ offers two types of teaching: broadcast lectures and schooling for the regular students to earn credits.
1. Broadcast Lecture Courses- Two Credit per Course
(A) Broadcast Lectures (TV, Radio and Internet)
For the 2nd Semester (October 2011-March 2012) of 2011, 258 Faculty of Liberal Arts courses and 68 School of Graduate Studies courses; a total of 326 courses (refer to the Table1), are available through television and radio. Most of the television lectures and all of the radio lectures are also made available through the Internet.
These broadcast lecture courses are on principle offered for four years (two semesters per year, totaling eight semesters). Therefore, approximately one quarter of the total courses is subject to replacement each year.
Table1 Total Subjects Offered in 2011
| 1st Semester | 2nd Semester | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TV Subjects | Radio Subjects | TV Subjects | Radio Subjects | |
| Total | 169 | 157 | 169 | 157 |
| 326 | 326 | |||
| The Faculty of Liberal Arts | 139 | 120 | 139 | 119 |
| 259 | 258 | |||
| The School of Graduate Studies | 30 | 37 | 30 | 38 |
| 67 | 68 | |||
(B) Textbooks
The OUJ courses are designed to be studied through both broadcast lectures and textbooks which are specially written for each of the courses by the OUJ academic staffs and/or other experts in the given field. Some of the textbooks are highly valued by the general public and even after termination of the courses; some are revised with a fresh look and sold as the “OUJ Book Series”.
2. Schooling (Face-to-Face) Courses- One Credit per Course
Classroom sessions, known as "schooling", along with broadcast lectures, are pivotal in teaching and learning at OUJ. The number of schooling offered at study centers throughout the country during the 2011 academic year was 2,885 (1st semester: 1,386, 2nd semester: 1,499). These sessions cover a wide range of subjects' characteristic to the Faculty of Liberal Arts. In addition to usual lectures and hands-on experiments, the class sessions sometimes include a variety of formats such as fieldworks and on-site observation visits.
Classroom sessions are usually designed, planned and held at the Study Centers throughout the country. The Study Centers in each locale not only offer general courses but courses in distinctive subjects unique to the given region such as history and culture, industry, nature, and so on. Furthermore, several Study Centers collaborate with nearby universities and research facilities to offer such courses.
