The Open University is a global leader in higher education able to reach every adult in the United Kingdom - and many others across the world.
The Open University has pioneered distance learning, delivering exceptional teaching and outstanding support to students across the UK and the world.
Our mission is to make learning accessible to all, and together we’ve already helped millions of students to realise their ambitions.
The Open Learn team plan, commission and develop content that unites faculty and University priorities with areas of topical and general interest. As well as serving the public, this supports our own student population in their academic, skills and career and personal development (CPD) endeavours, delivering quality assets openly available for teaching and learning.
The Open University vision is to break down barriers to education by reaching millions of learners each year, through free educational resources.
We believe that the main barriers to starting education are access, lack of confidence and cost. This is why the Open University works to remove these barriers.
The Open University has a radical and pioneering approach to access. Matching a refusal to place qualifications barriers in front of our own students, we also have a commitment to release and promote free learning content for others, for the benefit of the wider community.  Open Learn is a trailblazer for the provision of high quality open educational resources (OER) at scale and breadth, for free and accessible to all.