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Open University
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Open University, headquartered at Milton Keynes, England; founded 1969 as the Univ. of the Air. In 1971 a distance learning program was begun that consists of correspondence courses integrated with television and radio broadcasts, residential summer schools, and a counseling and tutorial service that operates through a network of regional offices and local study centers. Students (over 160,000) are usually over 21, working full-time, and studying in their spare time. The university has faculties of arts, education, management, mathematics, science, social sciences, and technology. It has served as the prototype for similar programs throughout the world.
Open University
the. (in Britain) a university founded in 1969 for mature students studying by television and radio lectures, correspondence courses, local counselling, and summer schools
(education, body)Open University - (OU) The UK distance-learning organisation, established in 1969. It teaches degree-level courses in many subjects via BBC radio and television broadcasts and summer schools.

http://hcrl.open.ac.uk/ou/ouhome.html.
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