... wealth and employment. However, understanding the factors behind such interventions is critical in ensuring that policymakers design the most relevant programmes to assist support businesses that have the potential to grow. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Growth firms Open learning...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Open learning Indonesia Stress Computer-based learning Race relations World Open Learning Conference and Exhibition (WOLCE 2000) Keywords: Open learning, Indonesia, Stress, Computer-based learning,Race relations Key figures from...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Europe Foreign languages Open learning Vocational training European Virtual Language Centre Keywords Europe, Foreign languages, Open learning, Vocational training The Dutch Centre for Educational Innovation (CINOP) plans to construct...

...Mark Cooper Describes how, in August 1989, the Engineering Industry Training Board (EITB) were commissioned by the Training Agency to evaluate the quality of open learning materials supplied to the industry. In parallel, the EITB entered into a collaborative research agreement with Aston University...

...Henry Goodman; Ken Langham; Kevin Beale Supporters of open learning now need to turn their attention to delivery aspects and how open approaches can be embedded into mainstream education and training. This is likely to be achieved by recognising the essential, though radically different, role...

...David Roche The Open University's multi‐media approach to teaching has been judged one of the most important innovations ever in the British educational system. Open learning allows individuals to learn in their own place and time and at their own pace, and to learn quickly away from work...

... development) are outlined. The MSC needs to ask their students the kind of questions that help them make their experience explicit and thereby make it accessible and open to others. A model is presented that can give a clue as to how to present open learning material to potential students to evaluate what...

...John Williams Austin Rover adopted open learning as a result of fundamental and massive changes in technology, productivity and its product range. With the help of the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) open learning centres at each of Austin Rover's main manufacturing sites have been established...

... a market‐oriented approach to a new “bespoke” product, often in the form of open learning. The ways in which this change has come about and the new initiatives that have arisen are outlined. Open learning materials production and delivery systems are discussed. A case study of the Oxford Centre for Adult...

... be helped to learn. The pros and cons of open and distance learning are discussed and definitions provided. Open learning versus traditional approaches are considered. Evaluation of open learning is discussed and its future direction considered. © MCB UP Limited 1986 Distance Learning Future...

...Derek Birch; Jack Latcham The open‐learning student has far more responsibility for setting the learning agenda than in traditional systems. Guidance is needed to help confirm the choice of course and explain particular difficulties associated with open learning. Tasks of the tutor include defining...