The Open University : a history / Daniel Weinbren.

By:

Weinbren, Daniel [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, in association with the Open University, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781526101464
1526101467

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

378.1/750941 23

LOC classification:

LC6581.G73 O676 2015

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Summary: This historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post-war social democratic settlement and the Cold War. A critical assessment of its engagement with teaching, assessment and support for adult learners offers an understanding as to how it came to dominate the market for part-time studies. It also indicates how, as the funding and status of higher education shifted, it became a loved brand and a model for universities around the world. Drawing on previously ignored or unavailable records, personal testimony and recently digitised broadcast teaching materials, it recognises the importance of students to the maintenance of the university and places the development of learning and the uses of technology for education over the course of half a century within a wider social and economic perspective.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
eBook	e-Library	EBSCO Education		Available

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index.

Print version record.

Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL

This historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post-war social democratic settlement and the Cold War. A critical assessment of its engagement with teaching, assessment and support for adult learners offers an understanding as to how it came to dominate the market for part-time studies. It also indicates how, as the funding and status of higher education shifted, it became a loved brand and a model for universities around the world. Drawing on previously ignored or unavailable records, personal testimony and recently digitised broadcast teaching materials, it recognises the importance of students to the maintenance of the university and places the development of learning and the uses of technology for education over the course of half a century within a wider social and economic perspective.

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