Open University

n (Education) the Open University (in Britain) a university founded in 1969 for mature students studying by television and radio lectures, correspondence courses, local counselling, and summer schools

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Open University - a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer schooluniversity - a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degreesBritain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom

Open University

Open University,

headquartered at Milton Keynes, England; founded 1969 as the Univ. of the Air. In 1971 a distance learning program was begun that now consists of correspondence courses integrated with television broadcasts, online and other computer resources, audio and video recordings, residential summer schools, and a counseling and tutorial service that operates through a network of regional offices and local study centers. Students (over 180,000) are usually over 21, working full-time, and studying in their spare time. The university's faculties include arts, business, education and language studies, health and social care, law, mathematics, computing, and technology, science, and social sciences. 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

Open University

(education, body)(OU) The UK distance-learning organisation,established in 1969. It teaches degree-level courses in manysubjects via BBC radio and television broadcasts and summerschools.

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

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noun a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school

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