REPORT : COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING IN THE UNITED KINGDO M Computer Assisted the United gdom The Open University : Second of a Two-Part Serie s Alfred Bor k Physics Departmen t University of California - Irvin e Irvine, CA 9266 4 The_Open University Of all the experiments in education taking place in various parts o f the world, perhaps none has justly received mere attention as indicatin g interesting future directions than The Open university . Hence, most reader s interested in educational innovation will already know much of the detail s cf The Open University . Nevertheless, I will try to give a comprehensiv e pic t ure, as I see it, based on my two visits there . Perhaps the most interesting aspect of how The Open Univeristy works i s the production of materials . The use of materials with students is to som e extent an elaboration and refinement of the existing types of correspondenc e courses to be found in many countries, with score unique additional features . Many media are used . Currently about 40,000 students are enrolled in Th e Open courses . I'll talk first about the production mechanism here,
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