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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Online Learning History: The Open University – 40 today, and a genius for our times - UTV
The OU's concept of distance learning began a genuine revolution in access to higher education that continues four decades onThe Labour prime minister Harold Wilson described the creation of the Open University in 1969 as the greatest achievement of his premiership. Four decades later, on the Open University's 40th birthday, Wilson seems not only right, but right in ways he could not have imagined. In 1969, when only 5% of Britons got a higher education and more than half of UK employees had no qualifications, the OU was a hugely innovative idea. It required no entry requirements. It welcomed part-time and mature students. It was "open", and meant it.
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