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@JWestland
I was happy with the OU, but the tutors did not only help you through exams, a lot of them gave the impression they cared about the field they tutored.
I think that really helps, you get the help and the enthusiasm. Maths tutors in general were good craic and loving the field they taught in, the computing ones were working in IT so they knew how to teach well.
CSB: I dropped off one exam by hand to a maths tutor around 1100 am. He was opened the door...in his blue towel fabric bath robe. He was clearly not expecting a student to hand in their handwritten maths exam. My colleague that gave me a lift and I were chuckling about that for some time, but he took it in good stride.
I only found doing the computing project at a distance very hard, the OU approached it much more accedemically than what our interns did who just build stuff and then had to write a long report, rather than justify it much much more.