Is Open University courses free?

The OU provides around 5% of its formal course materials as free open educational content every year on OpenLearn . OpenLearn includes over 1,000 free courses derived from the OU’s curriculum and dozens of specially commissioned. Learners can filter by subject, skills for life, skills for study or search by any term.

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Is OpenLearn good?

OpenLearn is good in the same way that something like FutureLearn, Coursera, EdX or Udacity is good: they’re all Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms and therefore their courses aren’t valued as real qualifications.

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