The Open University

The Open University was set up in Milton Keynes in 1969 to allow people who did not get a chance to study at university after school to access higher education through part time courses. The Open University "changed the face of education". It was different from the other universities because it was the first establishment to change higher education by allowing people who have left education long ago to continue learning and so improve their job prospects - this made a lot of difference as all of the other universities were aimed at students who had recently left education.

The Open University is also different from other universities because it facilitates distance learning. Even when the internet wasn't used by the Open University, students could send their work in the post to be marked.

The Open University links to the BBC because the BBC also used to show TV and radio recordings of the Open University's lectures. The students would do their work based on that and then send their work into the Open University that way.

Since the Open University first launched in 1969, over 1.6 million people worldwide became students and achieved their learning goals by studying with the Open University.

                                               

Websites I used:
http://www.open.ac.uk/