Monday, October 23, 2006

Free online studies with Open University / Yorkshire Post, 23 Oct 2006

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"Internet users anywhere in the world will be able to study through the Open University free of charge from this week. The Open University will become the first UK higher education institution to make its study materials freely available online. Up to 900 hours of learning resources will be published as part of a £5.65m project to meet the challenges of the explosion in online information. The university's website, www.open.ac.uk/openlearn, will go live on Wednesday [25/10/2006]. It will mean study material from access level to post-graduate will be available to anyone in the world with an internet connection. The OpenLearn site covers most popular subjects including arts, history, business, science, health, computing, mathematics and modern languages."