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SCIENCE STUDIO: Open University

Alan Bassindale

  

  Alan Bassindale is the retired Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Teaching, at Open University, a distance & learning university based in Milton Keynes, England.  With a current enrollment of over 200,000, this experiment in open enrollment has expanded opportunities of higher education to a world-wide community.  Bassindale talks about the advantages and challenges to this educational institution which was modeled on American universities.  http://www.open.ac.uk/

Aired April 24, 2016

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