 As of April 1, 2005, British Columbia Open University (BCOU) in Burnaby, that was a service of the Open Learning Agency became a part of the newly created Thompson Rivers University (TRU), located in Kamloops.From this date, BCOU is known as Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning or TRU Open Learning (TRU-OL).Thompson Rivers University (TRU), through its Open Learning Division (TRU-OL), became one of Canada’s leading distance education providers.