Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

A number of schools and universities may be required to close due to the coronavirus outbreak, but how can you quickly move your teaching online?

The sudden closure of universities and schools across the globe has created a demand in delivering educational content online. The Open University has long been a front-runner in distance learning, specifically online. Did you also know that we provide FREE content on OpenLearn, written by Open University academics? We offer a variety of FREE courses, interactives, academic insights and animations on a range of subjects.

• We specialise in delivering effective learning experiences for adults which fit around their lives, whether it’s a busy mum in London working toward her degree, or a primary school teacher in a remote area in Kenya, improving her classroom practice. Over 70% of our students remain at work while studying.
• We use appropriate technology to break down barriers – for those with disabilities, isolated or economically challenged. 
• We are open – we aim to remove all barriers to education and set no entry qualifications. 
• We use a mixture of business models (free, fee, and donor support) to provide scalable and sustainable solutions.
• We deliver quality learning experiences on scale to over 170,000 students. Of the UK learners, 61,000 are eligible for financial support and 44% start undergraduate study without the entry qualifications they would need at a conventional university.

In this free course, Take your teaching online, you will gain  knowledge fundamental to delivering effective teaching online.

One of the best advantages of the Internet and web technologies is that they have levelled the educational playground making education and learning accessible to anyone anywhere in the world with a computer and Internet connection. Whether you want to pick up a foreign language or learn the basics of a craft from scratch, 'you Google it and you find it'.