Distance Learning at the Open University

The British institution's success has inspired imitators in the United States

They arrive by the dozens, cramming into a community center in Leicester one recent evening to page through booklets on the Open University's courses, and to buttonhole the advisers, stationed at the displays, about the demands of taking college courses from their homes.

A harried single mother wondering whether a

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