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DIY Learn

Archived user story about DIY Learn. The OU partnered with Nesta and the Rockerfeller Foundation to create a set of online modules to help development practitioners understand and embed practical tools to support social innovation in their work.

DIY Learn has published 10 practical modules from the NESTA DIY Toolkit on OpenLearn Create and plans to publish more. The Open University set up all the modules which have digital badges and a Statement of Participation for successful completion.

This project is run by the International Development Office at The Open University which partnered with Nesta and The Rockefeller Foundation to create DIY Learn, an online learning programme in innovation.

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