OER Knowledge CloudMiscellaneous20092009/05McAndrew, PatrickSantos, A.Lane, AndyGodwin, StephenOkada, AlexandraWilson, TinaConnolly, TeresaFerreira, GiselleBuckingham Shum, SimonBretts, J.Webb, R.stakeholdersOpen Educational Resourcesopen contentlearning resourcesinstructional designUnited KingdomengThe Open UniversityThis report takes the experience of OpenLearn over its two-years of operation to reflect on what it means to offer free resources and the issues that we have been able to explore and learn from. The structure of the document is: (1) The OpenLearn initiative - an overview (2) OpenLearn research methods (3) Designing for Open Content (4) Types of user of OpenLearn (5) OpenLearn modes of usehttp://oro.open.ac.uk/17513/http://oro.open.ac.uk/17513/Research_forWeb.pdfMilton Keynes, England, United Kingdom, Europe