open learning

noun

1. a system of further education on a flexible part-time basis

Example Sentences

Sarma is the head of MIT Open Learning.

From Washington Post

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has been putting courses online for free since 2002, but most academics who were teaching in the current semester still had to scramble to work out how to move their materials online when the pandemic hit, says Sanjay Sarma, the university’s vice-president for open learning.

From Nature

“Their guidance at this time is schools should stay open, learning should go on, and events should continue as scheduled,” Onijala said.

From Washington Post

The Budapest-based Central European University has announced that it will suspend its pioneering Open Learning Initiative, a program that offered free non-degree courses to refugees and asylum-seekers.

From Slate

When asked to choose between an “open learning environment where students are exposed to all types of speech and viewpoints, even if it means allowing speech that is offensive or biased against certain groups of people,” or a “positive learning environment for all students that prohibits certain expressions of speech or viewpoints that are offensive or biased against certain groups of people,” 69 percent of faculty members favored the former.

From Washington Times