Creating Open Educational Resources from the Open University

Posted on February 16th, 2012 by Sue Watling

The Open University offers over 600 free online courses from their LearningSpace site where all content is made available under a creative commons licence (see below).

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Creating Open Educational Resources  is a 15 hour introductory course looking at the pedagogical issues involved in the creation and selection of self-study educational materials. It is a unit about writing a unit and distinguishes between the different purposes of self-instruction and gives advice about techniques and strategies to help the learner when they are engaging with what is considered to be open-learning materials.

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