Open Education Week is a celebration of the global open education movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide.
This year, the event runs from 27–31 March. Read more on the Open Education Week website.
Some of the ways we're involved in open education
Here at OpenLearn we're proud of our commitment to and involvement in the global education movement. You can read about the OU's commitment to free learning. We have 900 free courses on OpenLearn, as well as a great deal more.
We have collections of Skills for work courses aimed at those who need to enhance their work skills but can't commit to full-time study, and courses focusing on Skills for study, which help to refresh key study skills which might not have been used for a while.
We're committed to providing learners with recognition for their learning. On all our free courses, we offer learners a free statement of participation if they complete the course. Furthermore, on OpenLearn there are a number of badged open courses, which are more rigorously assessed, and for which learners can earn a free digital badge. Our badged courses combine the openness of the open badge, and the use of Moodle (open source) to develop openly licenced, free and open courses.
OpenLearn Cymru is a Moodle platform hosting OER in both English and Welsh.
We've pulled together our own experiences of creating free courses and have produced the free course How to create an open online course. It's aimed at anyone who wants to gain the skills and knowledge to design, structure and produce their own open online course. We also offer a place to host your own course (for free!) on OpenLearn Create.
You might be interested in visiting the website of the OEPS project, which celebrates open educational practices in Scotland.
Open courses about open education
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Creating open educational resources
Learn more to access more details of Creating open educational resourcesAre you interested in creating your own open educational resources? This free course, Creating open educational resources, will help you to write a learning course and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different purposes of self-instruction and receive advice about the techniques ...
Level: 1 Introductory
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An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Learn more to access more details of An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)In this free course, An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER), you will look at some institutional OER initiatives. These will include MIT's open courseware, Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative and The Open University's OpenLearn. You will get a flavour of how different OER initiatives design and present the content for their ...
Level: 3 Advanced
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Assistive technologies and online learning
Learn more to access more details of Assistive technologies and online learningIn this free course, Assistive technologies and online learning, you will explore some of the technology that disabled students use when accessing computers. We will take a look at the tools and techniques that make it possible for disabled students to engage with online learning.
Level: 3 Advanced
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