Open courseware
OpenLearn
The Open University
Free short courses from The Open University across sciences, humanities, business and study skills, with stated study times.
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https://www.open.edu/openlearn/
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Source, licence and version
- Published by
- The Open University. Published by a recognised institution or research organisation working in this field.
- Rights held by
- The Open University
- Access
- Openly licensed. Free to read, and the licence allows reuse under its own conditions.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Read the licence
- What you may do
- Read it where it is published. Tutor has no right to host a copy of this, and neither does anyone else without asking the rights holder.
- Attribution required
- “OpenLearn” by The Open University, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
- Version
- Recorded as the version in force, but nobody has checked it against the source. Confirm the year on the source page.
- What we checked
- The source and provenance were checked. That says nothing about whether the material is good, complete, or right for you.
- Languages
- en
- Useful for
- Introduction · Explore · Quick start
What it lines up with
One resource can sit differently against different curricula. Each row below says how strong the connection is and whose claim it is.
Wider readingTutor’s assessment
Offered to widen the view. No curriculum claim at all.
Undergraduate