I find distance universities very fascinating, and have learnt much from my time visiting the Open University of China and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in India. Distance universities have been in the forefront of researching alternative ways of delivering instruction and enabling learning, with radio and television, online classes etc. They are also uniquely poised to open up their materials, because their courses have been designed for distance/online learning from the outset. TheOpen University of the UK, the international pioneer of open universities, has been very innovative with its OpenLearn project.