Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Open University
(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)