Educational computing at the Open University: the second decade

Abstract

This paper charts the use of computers in the multi-media teaching system of the British Open University through the nineteen-eighties. It follows Bramer's previous paper [5] and describes the transition from a network linking 240 hardcopy terminals to central mainframes, in 1980, to a Home Computing Programme with 13,000 students using microcomputers at home, in 1990.