OpenLearn

The Future is Open Courseware: Three Institutions Offering Online Learning Opportunities

February 2, 2012

As society becomes increasingly more tech savvy, more and more of the foundations of our lives are turning to the web. Our professional lives have been conduced online and plugged in for several years now and, with the advent of social media and social networking, so too are our personal and social lives. The latest [...]

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CC Learn: Promoting Interoperability Among Open Educational Resources Repositories

April 16, 2007

Wanted: Single standard for open-content licenses. ‘New effort aims to unite open educational resources (OERs) under a common framework for permissions. The movement toward open course materials for education has created something of a problem: Although a number of repositories have been set up to allow users to download sharable online content, many of these [...]

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OpenLearn 2007 Conference

March 27, 2007

OpenLearn 2007 Conference – Researching Open Content in Education, 30-31 October 2007, Milton Keynes, UK. ‘This conference recognises the research challenge alongside the business challenge of providing, using and sustaining free and open resources and invites contributions and participation from those who are interested in how to research open content and what the findings are [...]

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OpenLearn: Free Educational Resources

November 2, 2006

The Open University launches OpenLearn. ‘The Open University’s commitment to broadening access to education is being taken to another level with the launch of OpenLearn, its major new open content initiative. The OpenLearn website will make educational resources freely available on the internet, with state-of-the-art learning support and collaboration tools to connect learners and educators. [...]

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