Aldwyn cooper biography sampler

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

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

He followed this up with a PhD on human memory at the University of Bristol () and then secured a Harkness fellowship to continue his research in psychology at Stanford University and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley ().

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 () 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 (), now part of the University of Reading, establishing the