Description
User friendly guide to computing, impact of multi-media formats used in OU courses. A look at computer formats, modems and CD-roms which will be used by students in their studies. Also student f...ears that the OU will become an electronic campus, and face to face tutorials will disappear. A visit to the micro-gallery in the Sainsbury wing at the National Gallery showing how a tour of the gallery can be chosen by selection from a computer screen, together with details about the artist and the painting. Funding for the OU, how will the money be spent, and why has the OU been so successful in obtaining more in grants than other universities. A look at Thames Valley University where Mike Fitzgerald - former Dean of Science at the OU - is now the Vice Chancellor.