What are differences between open university and long distance learning?
Let me put it this way, there is no distance in open university, a student in the Gambia assessing open university materials of AIT is not different from the student in Nigeria because they are seeing the materials online, assessing, chatting, corresponding and interacting with their colleagues online. But in distance education mostly you get books or materials sent to you, open university relies heavily on technology and provides a lot of opportunities. You have a lot of competitors from Europe and America. What stands you uniquely out of the crowd? The open university of AIT in being offered in collaboration with a top university in the world based in Malaysia and the quality of materials is the same with the US. We have also localized our materials. We added to some of the materials gotten from the Open University of Malaysia, so it is actually domesticated or localized in response to our environment and not an issue of just taken content from them. We are also mindful that a lot of
