About OpenLearn Create page

OpenLearn Create provides a lower cost solution for projects and organisations wanting to deliver Open Educational Resources and free hosting of your course if you don't require additional support. It enables you to personalise material to suit your learners, has a low barrier to collaborative community development of learning materials and a space to experiment with new technologies and ways of working.

OpenLearn Create provides a home for research projects which trial new educational technologies and practice.

OpenLearn Create is related to OpenLearn, the world's largest free learning platform, where The Open University hosts its own specially designed open content. The collections, courses and resources within OpenLearn Create come from a range of providers including the OU, giving you access to rich and varied content that you can study, reuse and remix.

We launched OpenLearn and LabSpace (now OpenLearn Create) in October 2006 thanks to a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Our shared vision was free online education, open to anyone, anywhere in the world.

We ask that wherever possible you choose an open licence for the content you publish on OpenLearn Create and ensure you have cleared copyright on any third party material you use.

At The Open University we believe the primary barrier to access high-quality educational experiences is cost, which is why we aim to publish as much free content as possible under an open licence on our open platforms. If it proves difficult to release content under our preferred CC licence (e.g. because we can't afford or gain the clearances or find suitable alternatives), we will still release the materials for free but under a more restrictive end-user licence.