Welcome to Computing at the Open University




Head of Department: Professor Hugh Robinson

We are a large, thriving department with an active research programme and a deep commitment to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. In keeping with the Open University's position as the world leader in distance education, we see the Department's development in the context of international excellence in research and teaching using Supported Open Learning and Distance Teaching techniques.

The Computing Department is part of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, and comprises over 42 central academic members of staff and 10 academic staff based at regional centres around the UK. It is also home for a number of research fellows, visiting researchers and both full-time and part-time research students.

The main interests for both teaching and research currently lie in the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, intelligent systems, and informatics education and computational linguistics.