Open Universities

The term open university or open universities usually refers to a university with an open-door academic policy, i.e. no entry requirements. The term may specifically refer to:

  • The Open University in the UK
  • Hellenic Open University (ΕΑΠ, Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο) in Greece
  • Open Universities Australia
  • Open University Malaysia in Malaysia
  • Indira Gandhi National Open University, India, often called by its acronym, IGNOU
  • Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, Assam, India popularly known as KKHSOU
  • The Global Open University Nagaland, India
  • Allama Iqbal Open University in Pakistan
  • Open University of Indonesia
  • Open University of Israel
  • Open University of Cyprus
  • Open University of Japan
  • Open University of Catalonia
  • Polytechnic University of the Philippines Open University
  • University of the Philippines Open University
  • Open University of Sudan
  • Open University of Hong Kong
  • The Intercultural Open University (distance education)
  • Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University in Thailand

The term may also be used to refer to universities employing specific teaching methods:

  • open supported learning, a teaching method used by The Open University which is not the same as distance education or correspondence study
  • distance education, but not all open universities focus on distance education

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or universities:

    Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you—you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)

    To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities ... than a rigorously enforced divorce from war- oriented research and all connected enterprises.
    Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)