参加该计划的学生可以通过讲座，研讨会，教程，实践，实地考察（学校实习），非正式但有计划的一对一支持以及自主学习（例如研究，阅读和写作）来学习。所有这些都由虚拟学习环境Durham University Online（DUO）支持。研讨会，辅导课和实践课的规模要比讲座小得多，辅导课程通常不超过8名与教授或讲师一起工作的学生，研讨会和实践课可能较大，但规模仍然很小，可以与之进行一对一互动。导师。实际操作还可以让专业老师亲身体验工作。对小组教学的强调反映了有意识地选择以提高学习体验的质量，而不是正式会议的数量。
Students on this programme learn through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practicals, fieldwork (school placements), informal but scheduled one-on-one support, and self-directed learning, such as research, reading, and writing. All of these are supported by a virtual learning environment, Durham University Online (DUO). Seminars, tutorials, and practical classes are much smaller groups than lectures, with tutorials often involving no more than eight students working with a professor or lecturer, seminars and practicals can be larger but are still small enough to allow one-on-one interaction with tutors. Practicals also allow hands-on experience of the work professional teachers perform. This emphasis on small-group teaching reflects a conscious choice to enhance the quality of the learning experience rather than the quantity of formal sessions. In fact, the degree programme is designed to feature fewer formal sessions and more independent learning as students move from their first to their final year. Small-group teaching and one-on-one attention from the personal academic advisor (provided for all students when they enter the programme) are part of the learning experience throughout, but by the final year classroom time gives way, to some extent, to independent research, including a capstone dissertation?supported by one-on-one supervision?that makes up a third of final year credits.. Optional foundation year, Optional sandwich year, Optional year abroad