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	About the OU : History of the OU
		Born in the 1960s, the 'White Heat of Technology' era, the Open University was founded on the belief that communications technology could bring high quality degree-level learning to people who had not had the opportunity to attend campus universities.
		The university's expansion continued throughout the 1980s as more courses and subject areas were introduced; as the importance of career development grew, so the university began to offer professional training courses alongside its academic programmes.
		Open University peak-time television programmes such as Rough Science, Renaissance Secrets, and Someone to Watch Over Me have been seen by millions of viewers and have won new critical acclaim for the University.
	www.open.ac.uk /about/ou/p3.shtml (1995 words)

	Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning Durban, South Africa, 29 July to 2 August 2002
		I believe that the development of open universities has been the most important revolution in education of the second half of the 20th century and I will try to identify the essence of their contribution to the development of individuals and contemporary societies.
		First, when the UK Open University was created in 1969 its founder, Walter Perry, did not believe that higher education was necessarily the highest priority areas for applying new methods of teaching and learning.
		Graduates from all universities were included in the sample and, not surprisingly, the results did not differ greatly from institution to institution, except in one case.
	www.unesco.org /education/html/speeches/adg_openlearning.shtml (4271 words)

	Open University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Open University was founded by the Labour government of Harold Wilson, based on the vision of Michael Young (later Lord Young of Dartington).
		The Open University Business School is the largest provider of MBAs in the UK, producing more graduates than all the rest of the business schools in the UK put together.
		The Lord Puttnam is appointed Chancellor of The Open University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_University (2392 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| UK university to open in China
		The University of Nottingham is to open a campus in China.
		The university, which will be known as University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China, will be the latest stage in higher education's expansion into a global market.
		Nottingham's new campus is to be opened in Ningbo, an historic city in the province of Zhejiang on China's eastern coast.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/3565665.stm (560 words)

	Founding the Open Universities: Essays in Memory of G. Ram Reddy
		The essays are arranged in chronological order of the establishment of each university, spanning 23 years from the Open University (UK) in 1969 to the establishment of the Bangladesh Open University in 1992.
		The UK Open University is where it all began, and the account revives the excitement, creativity, and sheer hard work of those early moments.
		The open university initiative in India had a narrow escape from oblivion when a vindictive civil servant ordered that APOU be located in a desert.
	cade.athabascau.ca /vol12.1/jenkins.html (977 words)

	News - Open Text Corporation
		The Open University is the UK’s largest university and a world leader in distance education.
		Independent authorities have consistently ranked the OU in the top five UK universities for teaching quality, and virtually all of its research areas have received ratings of national or international excellence.
		Employers also vote for the value of the university by sponsoring nearly 30,000 students a year to do OU courses, and a quarter of Britain’s MBA students are doing their degree through the Open University Business School.
	www.opentext.com /news/pr.html?id=1644 (846 words)

	Quality Assurance in Open and Distance Learning
		Many universities have established distance teaching operations and there has been a spectacular growth in the number of 'open universities' globally.
		Many universities also use ODL to reach out to students beyond their national boundaries, which raises many issues in the countries where those students reside.
		The seminar will be of particular interest to senior decision and policy makers who wish to understand and exploit the potential of open and distance learning; to senior managers in Higher Education and equivalent institutions, using or contemplating developing ODL; and to key players in ODL activity in these institutions.
	www.allconferences.com /conferences/20011209211710 (318 words)

	Creating Learning Communities
		The OU has also just established the Open University of the US Inc. In addition, policy makers in other countries have adopted and adapted the OU model to open up higher education to many more learners in new and flexible ways.
		Another outcome of this innovation was to recommend to the University that electronic course conferences should not be optional but fully integrated into the pedagogy of the course and thus compulsory (if relevant to meeting desired learning outcomes).
		A challenge facing the OU in the new millennium is to extend its commitment to openness through the design of enabling structures and processes for the emergence of novel learning systems in the context of sustainable development.
	www.creatinglearningcommunities.org /book/schools/ison.htm (2529 words)

	Distance Education Case Studies
		The OU represents 22% of all part-time higher education students in the UK.
		The university is ranked amongst the top UK universities for the quality of its teaching.
		UK e-Universities (UKeU)- was set up by the UK Government to provide a public/private infrastructure to administer and market UK e-learning worldwide.
	www.indiana.edu /~idsa/DistanceEd_Case1.shtml (667 words)

	Servicing the Open University portable microscope
		I have been so impressed by the performance of this unit that when he recently announced an OU microscope sale on the Microscopy UK web-site I went ahead and bought several more.They are sold in pairs and I have found that both can be refurbished.
		Here is an account of my experiences in working with these microscopes and some photos of the various procedures as they were carried out.
		Open University (UK) students microscope based on the McArthur design.
	www.microscopy-uk.org.uk /mag/artsep99/ouserv.html (1680 words)

	The Computing Department at the The Open University UK \| Open University Computing Department
		We are a large, thriving department with an active research programme and a deep commitment to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
		In keeping with the Open University's position as the world leader in distance education, we see the Department's development in the context of international excellence in research and teaching using Supported Open Learning and Distance Teaching techniques.
		The University has launched 'Open Learn' providing free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world.
	www.computing.open.ac.uk (264 words)

	Boing Boing: UK Open University opens its courseware
		Britain's Open University has just announced an ambitious program spend £5.65 million putting its courseware on the Internet under a Creative Commons license -- it joins MIT and many other institutions in adding its material to the common pool of university curriculum that can be freely used, edited, shared, and repurposed.
		The provision on the internet of 'Open Educational Resources', free at point of use and available to everyone, reflects The Open University's mission of promoting fair access for all.
		During the initial phase of this initiative, the University will select and make available educational resources from all study levels from access to postgraduate and from a full range of subject themes: arts and history, business and management, health and lifestyle, languages, science and nature, society and technology.
	www.boingboing.net /2006/03/17/uk_open_university_o.html (303 words)

	India’s NIIT and UK’s Open University forge global academic alliance
		This Open University degree programme builds upon the study that students would have completed with NIIT.
		Furthermore, students at The Open University were more impressed with the quality of their courses than those at any other university, based on the findings of the 2005 National Student Survey.
		The Open University is recognized for its ‘supported open learning’.
	www.niit.com /niit/ContentAdmin/NWS/NWSPR/NWSPR2/PR211105_OU.htm (728 words)

	NIIT, UK's Open University in pact
		IT training academy NIIT on Monday forged an alliance with UK's largest university, the Open University, to offer a degree programme in IT education to students across India, Bangladesh, Botswana, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria and Vietnam.
		The NIIT programme would be evaluated by the Open University to ensure its equivalence to 240 points of UK study.
		NIIT chief executive officer Vijay Thadani said this alliance would bring the Open University's rigorous curriculum to the students in their own country, thus making it a cost efficient way of acquiring an internationally accepted qualification.
	www.rediff.com /money/2005/nov/21niit.htm (208 words)

	Moodle: Open University chooses Moodle!
		Currently Open University students use a variety of software in a network to access their course work, interact with tutors and other students, use the library, submit assignments and handle administrative paperwork.
		Martin Dougiamas, Moodle community leader and lead developer, says he is very proud that the OU has chosen Moodle as the platform for its next generation of internet-based courses.
		The Open University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching, Dr Paul Clark, says: “The Open University has always been a leader in developing technology for e-learning, and this new student-centred technology is the next logical step.
	moodle.org /mod/forum/discuss.php?d=34002 (423 words)

	1: Information Technology and Society Project, Open University, UK
		The Open University of the United Kingdom has been at the forefront of open and distance learning for over the past 25 years.
		Within the university, one project in particular shows the extent to which information technologies are changing the roles and nature of learning: The Information Technology and Society Project, a collaborative development between the Open University's Technology and Social Sciences faculties and Institute of Educational Technology.
		Many of the student groups remain in close contact after the course and there is now a very active and committed open learning community readily awaiting the next cohort of students.
	www.unesco.org /education/educprog/lwf/doc/portfolio/abstract1.htm (618 words)

	Netaji Subhas Open University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Netaji Subhas Open University is a university imparting distance education in eastern India.
		Modeled on the Open University, UK and the IGNOU, it offers courses in different disciplines of taught graduate and post-graduate study and is one of the largest growing distance education universities in eastern India.
		This Indian university, college or other education institution article is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Netaji_Subhas_Open_University (145 words)

	LINGUIST List 11.547: Academic Writing/ Open University, UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Subject: Academic Writing: PhD Studentship/ Open University, UK Dear colleagues, I'd be grateful if you could pass the following information on to anyone who might be interested in applying for this studentship at the Open University, UK.
		Thanks, Joan Swann - ---------------------------- The Open University: Education: Full-Time PhD Studentship Applications are invited for a full-time 3-year studentship, tenable from October 1st 2000 and based at the Centre for Language and Communications, School of Education, The Open University, England.
		Open University (OU) courses are already available in several countries and this globalisation is set to increase.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/11/11-547.html (452 words)

	UNext.com and the UK's Open University Form Alliance
		During this first stage, UNext and Open University Business School (OUBS) will collaborate in a year-long pilot project to offer online courses from UNext's subsidiary, Cardean University, to OUBS alumni and to develop courses together.
		The Open University Business School (OUBS) is one of Europe's leading business schools and the leading provider of supported distance learning management development.
		Open University Business School Dean Roland Kaye says: "We see this as an exciting opportunity to explore how we can build on the strengths of two organizations committed to the large-scale delivery of high-quality learning in a global context."
	www.internetnews.com /bus-news/article.php/548381 (556 words)

	NIIT, UK's Open University forge alliance : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		IT education company NIIT has entered in to an alliance with Open University of UK to offer degrees to its students.
		Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University David Vincent said this was for the first time that Open University was entering in to a tie-up of this sort.
		He said the degree from the university would help students gain admission to higher levels programmes in the UK and other countries and its cost would come to $1,800.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Nov/30/181_1552542,00020018.htm (295 words)

	[OAI-general] PhDs in OAi + ScholOnto: Oct.2001 (KMi, Open Univ, UK)
		Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) KMi is a highly successful, rapidly expanding interdisciplinary laboratory founded at The Open University in 1995, and located in attractive new offices at The Open University's main campus in Milton Keynes, UK.
		This intellectual history is preserved with the final publication in the form of an edited version with the most significant comments and replies, which remains an open forum for authors (e.g.
		The Open Archives Initiative has developed a protocol to enable researchers to search for scholarly documents over multiple ePrint servers.
	www.openarchives.org /pipermail/oai-general/2001-March/000010.html (1075 words)

	The Mathematics Department at the The Open University UK \| Open University Mathematics Department
		The Mathematics Department at the The Open University UK
		In a recent national Student Satisfaction Survey (see www.tqi.ac.uk) the Open University students were the most satisfied with their courses and OU Mathematics students were the most satisfied Mathematics students.
		Professor Robin Wilson has been appointed President of the Mathematical Sciences Section for the 2007 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held at the University of York from 10-14 September.
	www.mathematics.open.ac.uk (375 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - Open University unlocks Russia’s closed cities
		UK charitable donors fall but rise in generosity
		The Open University Business School, along with its Russian partner organisation, the International Institute of Management Link, have produced programmes aimed at people who wish to change careers, as the nuclear weapons industry declines.
		James Fleck, dean at OUBS, says the project is an example of OUBS’s commitment to the university’s mission “to be open to all”.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/c5251bec-b5cb-11da-9cbb-0000779e2340.html (413 words)

	The Institute of Educational Technology at the OU
		The Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at the Open University provides advice on the use of modern technologies to support effective learning, particularly distance learning and e-learning, in higher education.
		We are committed to developing expertise in teaching and learning and to applying it, particularly to the benefit of the Open University.
		In addition to studying, evaluating and influencing OU practices, we also carry out basic research into learning and e-learning, and applied research into the use of new technologies.
	iet.open.ac.uk (294 words)

	CRU main index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Co-operatives Research Unit (CRU) is based at the Open University at Milton Keynes in the UK.
		The Open University is one of the best known distance learning institutions in the world.
		CRU has nearly 30 years of experience in research, training, consultancy and publications related to co-operatives, social enterprise and other organisations in the social economy.
	technology.open.ac.uk /cru (91 words)

	Lectureship available at the Open University, UK
		Please quote reference number 15629 Closing date for applications: 21st November 2000 THIS POST IS OPEN TO INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL APPLICANTS Disabled applicants whose skills and experience meet the requirements of the job will be interviewed.
		The University offers a wide range of jobs with excellent training and career development opportunities.
		We actively promote equal opportunities in education and employment and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
	www.neutron.anl.gov /pipermail/neutron/2000/000432.html (453 words)

	mathMedia -- Projects in the UK -- Open University
		Contact the Open University on its website: www.open.ac.uk.
		There has been a history of over 20 years of work at the BBC's Open University Production Centre in Milton Keynes (now renamed BBC Milton Keynes).
		But since mathMedia became independent in 1998, there have also been a number of contracts for the Open University..
	www.grout.demon.co.uk /mathmedia/projects/uk_ou.html (77 words)

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