Dt Patrick McAndrew talks about OpenLearn and how learners are using the free learning materials online.

1. The Users’ Experience Patrick McAndrew, Research & Evaluation Director OpenLearn, The Open University 29 th November 2007

2. Users: Learners and Educators

5. Reasons for study (data from initial study of OpenLearn registered users March 2007)

6. Courses users want

7. What users like http:// tagcrowds.com (Thanks to Gill Clough for pointer!) “ I like the idea of learning for pleasure as opposed to learning to achieve targets.” “ Free learning that you can dip into at your leisure.” “ Ability to try OU course units before registering for the course.” “ To upgrade skills … and to meet the requirements for the jobs”

8. How users see OpenLearn

9. OpenLearn as formal learning Results 1 - 10 of about 11,800 from openlearn.open.ac.uk for work

11. Context and community matter

12. Anne’s story

13. Producer view

14. Content in XML

15. Lessons .zip Formats Time Access Collaboration

16. Things are happening…

17. Reaching out

18. Looking to the future: disaggregation