Free materials from OpenLearn

The Open University's OpenLearn project offers free access to a wide range of course materials for you to use for your own development or in your teaching.   You can work through them on screen or tailor them to use in your teaching.

How to find them

Go to OpenLearn to read more about the project  or go straight to your chosen subject.  Registration is free if you want to connect with other learners and practitioners.

• Arts and history                         Modern Languages          
• Business and Management       Science and Nature
• Education                                  Society
• Health and Lifestyle                  Study Skills
• IT and Computing                     Technology
• Mathematics and Statistics

Tailoring them for your own use

If you're technically confident, use the tools provided to revise them and then upload them into the Sussex Learning Network OpenLearn area  and share them with others in Sussex.  You'll see that members of the SLN e-learning project team have already put some materials there. 

If you're not technically confident, simply copy and paste them into a Word document and edit them to suit your purpose. 

For more information about OpenLearn go the our e-Learning project pages.

Research at the Sussex Learning Network

Keep up to date by going to the Research zone to find out about all our Sussex research projects.

• 21 SLN funded research projects relating to vocational learning in Sussex together with contact details of the researchers.
• Facts, figures and statistics relating to skills and the economy in Sussex.
• Reports and publications  from the SLN.
• External resources including labour market information.

Other SLN sponsored work

Mapping of teacher training and CPD opportunities in the post compulsory sector

This draft working document provides a snapshot of opportunities for practitioners in Sussex.  It was produced between September and December 2006 and includes courses available at further education colleges and higher education institutions from level 3 to post graduate level.  Practitioners will, of course, be aware that the standards for all those working on community learning and development, further education, higher education, libraries, archives & information services and working based learning are currently being reviewed and are now the responsibility of  LLUK.

Draft working document

CPD and MA Provision in learning and development at the University of Brighton

The University of Brighton wanted to explore a different approach to their Masters level provision in Education and Academic Practice which was due for revalidation.  

Early in 2007 a number of interviews were undertaken in Sussex in order to gauge interest in providing free-standing modules on a wide range of topics which could be studied individually as part of CPD, or be used to build a Masters level qualification.  

Interviewees and summary report,  March 2007