The Open University has locations throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.

International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL, The Open University, UK) distance learning portal. Provides a comprehensive database of UK open and distance learning courses and institutions, a searchable database of accredited distance education institutions worldwide and database of ODL literature abstracts as well as up-to-date news and discussion areas.

The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is an R&D lab at the UK Open University, undertaking research into knowledge and media technologies including distributed collaboration media, semantic web, knowlege management, presence and messaging, virtual classrooms, multimedia environments for disabled learners, intelligent agents, organisational memories, digital documents, scientific visualisation and ...

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Virtual Summer School, 1994 Key words: virtual classroom, distance learning, telepresence, Open University See also: KMi Stadium, an experiment in very large scale telepresence The People The Campus Background One of the great strengths of the UK's Open University is its extensive infrastructure, which provides face-to-face tuition through a network of more than 7000 part-time tutors throughout ...