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Open Universiteit Nederland
Open Universiteit Nederland (English: Dutch Open University) is an independent government-funded institute for distance learning at university level in the Netherlands.
The Dutch government's purpose in founding Open Universiteit Nederland was to make higher education accessible to anyone with the necessary aptitudes and interests, regardless of formal qualifications. It welcomed its first students in September 1984.
Open Universiteit Nederland goes by many names and abbreviations. Other names include:
- Open University of the Netherlands
- Open Universiteit
- Open universiteit
- Dutch OU
The canonical abbreviation (that is, the we use in Re.ViCa) is OUN.
Other abbreviations include Ou (two-character abbreviations are deprecated as they are easily confused with ISO abbreviations for countries) and OUNL.
Its web site is at http://www.ou.nl
It is a member of EADTU.