The business dates its origins to the mid 1980’s, when MTC Computer School (MTC) (now Open Learning Resources (Asia) Pte Ltd) was established in Singapore to provide correspondence courses for computer training. In 1988, MTC was re-organized into a broad based educational company and began to establish partnership programs with internationally recognized universities and institutions. In 1995 MTC merged with the educational operations of Tunku Iskandar, a member of the Royal Family of Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia, giving the company a strong presence in, the rapidly expanding market, of Malaysia.