Live and learn with distance learning

Distance learning has come far since the days of late-night TV lectures. We speak to students who have turned their lives around from the comfort of their homes Win your Future: Study for free at the Open University Andrea Goldshaw gets up at 5am, studies for three hours and then goes to work. She is in the second year of a law conversion course with Nottingham Trent University studying under ...

Building the future of computing in schools

Michael Gove's speech has set the wheels in motion, now the work needs to be done – how teachers can enhance their knowledge of ICT plus share expertise and views My office at The Open University is just down the road from Bletchley Park, the war-time code-breaking centre which now houses the National Museum of Computing . Seventy years ago in this quiet countryside setting, the "father of ...

TELL US: Doncaster students have the world at their feet

THEY have high school at their backs and the world at their feet.

Digital literacy campaign – live blog and live Q&A

The Guardian's campaign to improve the teaching of computer science and IT kicks off with a live Q&A featuring experts from Microsoft, the Open University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, e-skills UK, and the Computing at School Working Group 4.43pm: Thanks very much to our guests, and thanks for all your comments today. It's been a great debate. Tomorrow on the live blog we will have a Q&A on ...

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