The open university

Made in 1969, The Open University (OU) has pointed from its initiation to be interested in individuals, places, strategies and thoughts yet its story has never completely been told. An examination task has been made to graph the historical backdrop of the University and its effect on understudies, the universe of instruction and more extensive society. The task expects to draw on the aggregate experience of OU staff and understudies more than 40 years. To add to this, this site has been composed with the goal that data, memories and perspectives can be put together by anybody with an enthusiasm for the OU's history.The venture, which occurred from 2009-2012, was situated up by the OU's Vice Chancellor's Executive, to convey a high caliber, available, multi-media history of The Open University, taking a gander at the University's commitment to various parts of more extensive society and its huge effect upon understudies and their families. 

All photos on the site are OU copyright unless generally expressed. All the varying media material on the site is likewise accessible to view by means of the History of the OU podcast. This was an auspicious venture. The fate of advanced education is under expanded examination and discourse, with the possibility of further cuts as open spending contracts. The nature and part of advanced education and its effect on more extensive society confronts examination as it defends its presence and exercises.The part has extended and changed significantly in the recent a large portion of the twentieth century. The opening and development of The Open University, offering bolstered separation learning and a non-customary course to a degree, has made a critical commitment to post-war advanced education. It is accepted to have impacted instructing in organizations crosswise over Britain and set a case that has been taken after all around. 

This venture had the capacity look all the more carefully at the University's unique part broadly and globally and its position in the realms of grown-up, separation and advanced education.Keeping in mind the end goal to make an adjusted picture of the University, it was vital that the undertaking drew on the aggregate experience of its staff and understudies more than forty years. To encourage listening to a scope of voices this site was initially situated up to scatter material from formal sources as well as to showcase individual memories and perspectives. These are offered furthermore added to other material created by the undertaking. The undertaking based on the experience of The Open University Oral History Project (2008-10) which gathered more than 70 oral confirmations from people who had been staff and understudies at the OU. It has additionally drawn intensely on material gathered by the college documents, which and containing material from the University itself, cares for particular gave accumulations, for example, those from Jennie Lee, the clergyman in charge of establishing the OU, Walter Perry, the first Vice-Chancellor, and Betty Boothroyd, the previous Chancellor. This site is presently an asset for those inspired by the historical backdrop of the Open University and its more extensive connections in the run up to its fiftieth birthday in 2019.