Open University n 1: a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school
Open University <education, body> (OU) The UK distance-learning organisation, established in 1969. It teaches degree-level courses in many subjects via BBC radio and television broadcasts and summer schools. (http://hcrl.open.ac.uk/ou/ouhome.html). (1999-07-13)