OPEN LEARNING GUIDE

Free courses about open and Services list Creating open educational resources Building capacity Assistive technologies We have a range of free resources to help Accessibility of e-learning build capacity in online teaching and Teaching tricky topics learning, supporting the learning community Teachers sharing resources online (especially FE colleges) in moving online with teaching and learning. Take your teaching online Becoming a facilitator Licensing How to make an open course The OU has an extensive library of course Becoming an open educator designed for online distance learning. The Open education free resources outlined above represents a small part of our total content repository. Introduction to OERs (More information about OU licensing.) Networked practitioner Consultancy OU Centres of Excellence in open and The OU can provides experts in open and distance learning distance education (organisation design, programme design, learning design, learning Institute of (IET) analytics, etc.). (More information about IET publications consultancy from the OU.) IET areas of expertise Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) Validation Open and Distance Learning for Development The OU has extensive experience of accrediting institutions to offer programmes Arts and Social Sciences: current projects leading to an OU-validated award. The OU Centre for STEM Pedagogy (eSTEeM) eSTEeM research Build your own course Centre for Research in Education and Educational If you want to build your own free course and Technology (CREET) share it with others you can use OpenLearn CREET research Create and join us and others in making courses open. A version of OpenLearn Create OU research about open and distance learning is available if you want to close your course or present OU-licensed materials. Overview trends in thinking about pedagogy Interactive media in education Learning design Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and If you want support with learning design, e-Learning we have expertise and support; from thinking about learning needs, your learner OER Hub: OU-led research and case studies on characteristics and to how to develop and open education deliver the most effective solution. OpenTEL Education futures Production services The OU offers production services to create Journals and research papers new courses, adapt materials for online learning and curated content sites to support Elsevier open access journals individual learning. We also offer editorial, Learnhigher graphics and interactive media development ICDE online advice services.