* The Open University of Tanzania is a fully fledged and accredited public Institution of Higher learning, mandated to conduct academic programmes leading to Certificates, Diplomas, Undergraduate and Postgraduate qualifications.

The Open University of the United Kingdom ( UKOU ), established in 1969 as the first educational institution in the world wholly dedicated to open and distance learning, still relies heavily on print-based materials supplemented by radio, television and, in recent years, online programming.

As part of the mass-education campaign of the 1970s, he founded five universities, each at different sites, in North Rhine-Westphalia and initiated Germany ’ s first distance learning university at Hagen ( modelled on the Open University ).

Open content allows for a free way of obtaining higher education that is " focused on collective knowledge and the sharing and reuse of learning and scholarly content.

Wilson also deserves credit for grasping the concept of an Open University, to give adults who had missed out on tertiary education a second chance through part-time study and distance learning.

The British Open University, and the online distance courses at the University of British Columbia ( where Web CT, now incorporated into Blackboard Inc. was first developed ) began a revolution of using the Internet to deliver learning, making heavy use of online discussion between students in all their programs.

* The Open University-Britain's ' open to all ' distance learning University ( est.

Some institutes of higher learning, such as the Open University Malaysia, have enacted admission policies favouring bumiputra students.

The Open University ( also commonly referred to by its initialism OU ) is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom.

* The School of Allied Health Sciences received £ 199, 000 and £ 125, 000 as part of the JISC / HEA Open Educational Resource programme to share learning materials on a range of health and life science subjects in 2012 and 2011 respectively.

* Open University: ED209-1 Exploring children's learning, and in particular 4.

* Open system of learning, where information is sourced from multiple sources

Officers can complete degrees via distance learning with the Open University, although completion is not required.

In September 2007, he announced funding for students taking second degrees would be re-allocated to allow more students to take first degrees: adult and continuing education institutions such as the Open University, Birkbeck, University of London, and lifelong learning departments throughout the country, have voiced angry protest at the proposals.

Upon learning about this sale, the New York City Parks Department and the State of New York, with the help of the Open Lands Foundation, raised over $ 1, 300, 000 to buy back the land from the developer, thus creating High Rock Park.

The college caters for 7, 000 students on a full / part time and Open learning basis, along with a specialist facility for blind individuals that is located on the Milton Road campus.

He was mainly responsible for deciding that the Open University would not compromise on academic standards-he was determined that its qualifications should be of equal academic value to non-distance learning Universities.

The OUSL's Vision is "“ To be the premier Open and Distance Learning institution in Asia through excellence, efficiency and equity in lifelong learning ”.

The OUSL's Mission is To enhance access to high quality, affordable and relevant education through Open Distance Education and ensure lifelong learning opportunities to face challenges in a knowledge society

In 1998 USQ was voted the ' World ’ s Best Dual Mode University ' by the International Council for Open and Distance Education ( ICDE ) while Professor Jim Taylor, the then Director of the Distance Education Centre won the inaugural ICDE prize for individual excellence for his contribution to global distance learning.

In 1980, the Open University was officially recognized as an institute of higher learning in Israel, and was accredited to award undergraduate or bachelor's degrees ( BA ).

The station also runs an Open Centre at its Priory Place Centre, where people can drop in to take part in multi-media learning and creative activity.

The Education Program supports efforts to make high-quality academic content freely available on the Internet and to share these Open Educational Resources for teaching, learning, and research.

Additional channels are broadcast over satellite as part of the Maharishi Open University's distance learning program, which also has studio facilities at Maharishi Vedic City in Iowa.

The Fed sets a target for the Fed funds rate, which its Open Market Committee tries to match by lending or borrowing in the money market ... a fiat money system set by command of the central bank.

Other uses of Forth include the Open Firmware boot ROMs used by Apple, IBM, Sun, and OLPC XO-1 ; and the FICL-based first stage boot controller of the FreeBSD operating system.

Open source operating systems such as Linux have already profited from OS / 2 indirectly through IBM's release of the improved JFS file system which was ported from the OS / 2 code base.

* of Phrenology Open Content Alliance eBook Collection, Manual of phrenology: being an analytical summary of the system of Doctor Gall, on the faculties of man and the functions of the brain: translated from the 4th French ed

* A System of Phrenology Open Content Alliance eBook Collection, George Combe's A system of phrenology

* Open system

Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.

The US Open, Miami Masters, US Open Series, and World Team Tennis started using this challenge system in 2006 and the Australian Open and Wimbledon introduced the system in 2007.

Worms: A Space Oddity was developed by Team17 exclusively for Nintendo's Wii system, using a heavily modified version of the Worms: Open Warfare 2 engine.

* Open Source software, such as the Linux operating system and the Mozilla Firefox web browser, gain ground.

However, z / OS also supports 64-bit Java, C / C ++, and UNIX ( Single UNIX Specification ) APIs and applications through UNIX System Services — The Open Group certifies z / OS as a compliant UNIX operating system — with UNIX / Linux-style hierarchical HFS and zFS file systems.

The definition of " open system " can be said to have become more formalized in the 1990s with the emergence of independently administered software standards such as The Open Group's Single UNIX Specification.

Open systems architecture, in telecommunication, is a standard that describes the layered hierarchical structure, configuration, or model of a communications or distributed data processing system that:

Open systems architecture may be implemented using the OSI Model as a guide while designing the system to meet performance requirements.

Open relays have also resulted from security flaws in software, rather than misconfiguration by system administrators.

For the refugee system to work successfully, countries must be prepared to allow Open borders for people fleeing conflict, particularly for countries closest to the conflict.

NFS, like many other protocols, builds on the Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call ( ONC RPC ) system.

The Open Group is most famous as the certifying body for the UNIX trademark, and its publication of the Single UNIX Specification technical standard, which extends the POSIX standards and is the official definition of a UNIX system.