OpenLearn aims to break the barriers to education by reaching millions of learners around the world, providing free educational resources and inviting all to sample courses that our registered students take – for free!

URL

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

Features

Creative Commons license info

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Type

Repository plus Catalog or Directory

Additional information

What can you do on OpenLearn?

You can use this website to:

• browse the subject categories to discover articles, watch videos and interact with features and games created by our academic experts and guest contributors
• explore new topics to build your personal knowledge or look for reference material for a course you are already studying
• join the debates - hit the Comments area on all our pages to make your voice heard, rate how we're doing and share with your friends
• find out What's On TV and radio - great Open University programmes on the BBC
• take one of our free courses
• earn a digital badge or statment of participation as evidence of your learning

Link to 800 free courses: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses

Comments / evaluation

Very interesting alternative formats to download from the site.

Here are some examples:

• OUXML Package  (22 KB)
• OUXML File  (58 KB)
• RSS  (217 KB)
• IMS Common cartridge
• SCORM  (3.8 MB)
• HTML  (3.8 MB)
• epub  (1.4 MB)
• Kindle  (1.7 MB)
• Word  (1.7 MB)

 

Submitted by Andrea Spila
21/06/2015
in the project Sample Library of OERs

last updated 21/06/2015