The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE) conducts state-of-the-art research, disseminate best practices, emerging trends, policy frameworks and assessment and quality assurance information; and develop strategic partnerships with public and private universities and organisations for the effective delivery of borderless higher education academic programmes and services. The Observatory's primary purpose is to provide strategic information to enable policy-makers and institutional-organisational leaders to make informed decisions relevant to their existing and/or future transnational higher education initiatives.

A leading international journal in the field of open, flexible and distance learning. Widely subscribed and read throughout the world by those in specialist distance education institutions, and also by those using distance, flexible and technology based forms of learning in conventional education and training contexts.

Open Learning publishes three kinds of article:

• Theoretical and evidence-based scholarly articles reflecting developments in open, distance and e-learning
• Shorter practical articles describing the implementation of forms of open, flexible and distance learning likely to interest our international readership
• Book reviews