Aldwyn cooper biography of georgetown

A pioneer in online education who became a visionary vice-chancellor has died.

Aldwyn Cooper was born in London in 1949 and educated at Dulwich College.

Aldwyn cooper biography of georgetown

He worked as a folk musician and as a junior engineer on the London Underground before going on to a degree in experimental psychology at the University of London (1968-71). He followed this up with a PhD on human memory at the University of Bristol (1971-74) and then secured a Harkness fellowship to continue his research in psychology at Stanford University and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley (1974-76).

While at Stanford, however, Professor Cooper decided to switch to the exciting new field of microcomputing and, on his return to the UK, joined The Open University as a senior lecturer (1976-80) and led the team there developing computer-based education.

From there he moved on to a position as professor of management studies at what was then Henley Management College (1980-87), now pa