Open University Online Project

The Open University has become the first higher education institute in Britain to make course material freely available online.

Study material, from access to postgraduate level, will be available to anyone in the world with an internet connection

The OpenLearn website provides information from eleven subject areas (Arts & History, Business & Management, Education, Health & Lifestyle, IT & Computing, Maths & Statistics, Modern Languages, Science & Nature, Society, Study Skills, Technology) presented as units requiring between 3 and 15 hours of study time.

The website will gradually be built up, and it is envisaged that by 2008 it will contain up to 5000 study hours of material.

Users of the site will not be able to contact tutors or gain qualifications like registered fee-paying Open University students. However, a selection of existing learner-support tools will be available.

14/11/06