The Open University of Israel is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education.
The inauguration ceremony of the Tel Aviv campus: Prof. Avraham Ginzburg (right), President of the University, and Dorothy de Rothschild (center), 1976
The OUI Ramat Aviv campus
One of the university’s first graduation ceremonies
The villa in Afeka which housed the University’s offices in its early days, 1974
Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time an
Open University of Israel
…The Open University of Israel (Hebrew: האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha, Arabic: جامعة إسرائيل المفتوحة) is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (CHE). Open University teaching…
Somerset House, home of the University of London from 1837 to 1870
William Rainey Harper, proponent of external university courses, pictured here in 1905
Walton Hall, renovated in 1970 to act as the headquarters of the newly established Open University (artist: Hilary French)