Open learning: an exciting opportunity

Abstract

This article comes after a two‐year study of Open Learning in various countries of the world, and of the attempts being made to extend educational opportunities by means other than increasing the number of institutions of full‐time study. The study was sponsored and financed by UNESCO and the Ford Foundation, and resulted in a book published in January 1976 containing seventeen reports from thirteen countries. It comes to the conclusion that Open Learning, in the sense of part‐time home‐based study, represents a valid addition in principle to the routes to education now available, and that ways and means of realising it effectively deserves further examination.

Citation

Postgate, R. (1976), "Open learning: an exciting opportunity", Education + Training, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 71-75. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001898