ABSTRACT
Leaners’ disaffection and disadvantage were the springboards for the open learning movement. Following the establishment of the National Extension College (1963) and the Open University (1969), the benefits of studying with a range of materials and support systems were increasingly recognised, until in the Manpower Service Commission’s Open Tech project it was claimed that ‘open learning enables you to study in your own time, at your own pace and in your own place’.1 Another expression of the aim of open learning is that it is to enable you to learn what, when, where and how2 you like.
