Journal of European Industrial Training: Volume 10 Issue 6

1. Introduction — What is Open Learning?

The growth of open and distance learning initiatives has arisen from the wish of employers to train staff with least absence from work, the improvement of facilities to meet the…

2. Open Learning — The Key to Success

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…

3. Open Learning in Further Education

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…

4. Colleges Open for Business

John A. Corlett

With rapid technological change and international competition for traditional markets, new approaches to training have been developed. The old pattern of college provision with…

5. Distance Learning in Management Education: A Case Example

David W. Birchall

A distance learning unit (Henley Distance Learning Ltd (HDLL)) was established at Henley — The Management College, in 1979 to meet the needs of those unable to participate in more…

6. Open Learning — An Opportunity for Growth or a Case of Paradigm Lost?

Peter Critten

The ways in which the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) intends to move towards “an organismic commonality of value directions” (i.e. once people open themselves up to an…

7. Open Learning from the Open University

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…

8. Open BTEC — Updating for Business

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…