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Distance learning is today unrecognisable from the days of correspondence courses , summer schools , exam centres and tense waiting for postal results . Since OC delivered its first online courses in 1995 however it has led the education market toward its digital future . Tracing its roots back more than 116 years to its establishment as International Correspondence Schools ’ presence in Australia the school was given its present name under its then owner Nexus Education Group . In 2013 a controlling share was acquired by NASDAQ-listed Apollo Education Group , the world ’ s largest private education provider based in the USA .
OC has no physical ‘ campus ’ so it concentrates on online interaction with its 65,000 enrolled students studying more than 150 vocational courses , nationally recognised under the Australian Qualifications Framework ( AQF ) in subjects ranging from accountancy to business administration , construction and journalism . Students range from school leavers to retired people with an average
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