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Open University attending COP15
The Open University (OU) is attending COP15, The United Nations Climate Change Conference which takes place from 7 to 18 December this year.COP15 provides an opportunity to create and realise a new global contract to reduce emissions, replacing the Kyoto protocol which is due to expire in 2012. Notable absences from ...
Silverville related study units on OpenLearn
A new Open University/BBC documentary, Silverville, starts on Wednesday 29th July at 10:45pm on BBC One. Silverville is a six part series which follows the lives of residents in a Milton Keynes retirement village. In the next 20 years, the over 80s will be the fastest growing age group in the country with more people ...
OpenLearn Research Report published
The Open University has published a research report which is now available online (see link below). The report evaluates the impact OpenLearn has had internally and externally and the challenges that lie ahead in open content and establishing open learning networks.The research report brings together several case ...
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OpenLearn sets the SCORE
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) recently announced that it was giving The Open University (OU) £7.8 million from its Strategic Development Fund to enhance its national role. This was announced during the OU’s 40th anniversary celebrations at Downing Street last month with Prime ...
Free study units for World Environment Day
OpenLearn has a collection of free course units related to World Environment Day, focussing on topics such as climate change and global warming to reading rocks and ecology and animal survival in diverse climates.World Environment Day was established on 5 June 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly to mark the ...
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OpenLearn Wales launches
The Open University has launched OpenLearn Wales - free online learning resources for anyone with an interest in Wales. The first multimedia collection to launch concentrates on Welsh history and its sources and includes videos from the BBC Coast series, audio recordings of seventeen BBC Radio Wales programmes, a case ...
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OpenLearn Scotland launches
The Open University will today throw open a window on Scottish society, culture and history, available to everyone, anywhere in the world, for free. Designed to take Scotland to the wider world, The Open University is launching OpenLearn Scotland, a new collection of free online learning resources. Covering Scottish ...
OpenLearn wins award
OpenLearn has received an Excellence in Distance Education Awardat this week's Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. OpenLearn was recognised as an outstanding example of interactive, electronically delivered distance education material.The judges said: "The OpenLearn website of the Open ...
Free study units for Adult Learners' Week
Coordinated by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education Adult Learners' Week seeks to engage and inspire people to pursue adult learning in the UK. OpenLearn offers a number of free online study units related to the themes of the 2008 Adult Learners' Week in the LearningSpace (link ...
OpenLearn reaches target
This week OpenLearn reached its target of publishing 5400 learning hours of materials from Open University courses in the LearningSpace and 8100 hours in the LabSpace. OpenLearn launched in October 2006 with an ambitious target to publish almost 5% of the OU’s learning materials online by April 2008. The ...
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Who are 'OpenLearners'?
Steve Godwin is a researcher on the OpenLearn project. Recent data from his research is helping build a picture of who is using OpenLearn's free resources in teaching and learning. Around 90% of people visiting OpenLearn don't register on the website. One of Steve's biggest challenges is getting data ...
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OpenLearn releases new Web 2.0 features
This week sees OpenLearn release a range of new Web 2.0 features for learners and educators. OpenLearn is the IMS 2007 Platinum Award-winning website with thousands of hours of free, remixable Open University course materials.Learners can now create a list of personal interests in their OpenLearn profiles, connecting ...
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OpenLearn shortlisted for 2008 National eWell-Being Awards
OpenLearn has been shortlisted in the Reaching the Digitally Excluded category of SustainIT's 2008 National eWell-being Awards. The awards highlight projects that use ICT to reduce social exclusion, and improve access to economic and social opportunities, for disadvantaged groups. The aim is to identify and ...
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OpenLearn pushes the copyright debate forward
An OpenLearn workshop debating the future role of rights and open educational resources has been held at The Open University. The workshop welcomed publishers with a long-standing relationship with the university. Third party materials owned by the publishers have been cleared for use in OpenLearn ensuring the course ...
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OpenLearn shortlisted for e-Government award
OpenLearn has been shortlisted in the Learning and Skills category of the e-Government National Awards 2007. Announced today, the awards highlight UK services which improve citizen and business transaction with councils, central government departments and other public sector organisations. This year’s awards ...
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OpenLearn2007 conference opens
A year since the launch of OpenLearn, The Open University are hosting a conference to share research in the area of open educational resources. OpenLearn 2007: researching open content in education opens its doors today to 150 researchers from around the world. Focussing on the research agenda, sustainability, user ...
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OpenLearn celebrates its first anniversary
The OpenLearn website is celebrating one year since its launch on 25th October 2006. In the first year the website has provided free access to educational resources to over 975,000 learners and educators around the world. The website launched with 900 learning hours of study materials from Open University courses. ...
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OpenLearn shortlisted for Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year Award
OpenLearn has been shortlisted for the JISC Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year Award, announced by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) today. More than 90% of UK universities entered in one category or more, making it one of the most competitive years yet for the annual Awards.The entry was judged on its ...
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OpenLearn offers free online video conferencing to learners
Free online video conferencing has been added this week to OpenLearn, The Open University’s open content initiative which now boasts more than 700,000 users globally. Aimed at enhancing the learning experience for users, this is the first time video conferencing technology has been made available in the ...
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International collaboration extends to Pakistan
Dr Khaver Zia is Dean of the School of Computer and Information Technology at the Beaconhouse National University (BNU) in Pakistan. Two months into his International Fellowship at The Open University we spoke to him about his experience of working with the OpenLearn team. His research concentrates on students’ ...
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