If you’re looking for a new daily learning feed, why not try one of the following new releases:
- The Big Bang: a look at some of the experimental evidence pointing to the big bang origin of the Universe.
- Managing coastal environments: a look at how to approach the study of environments and why environmental questions are so pressing.
- The politics of devolution: a look at the process of political devolution in the UK, in relation to both historical developments and to the wider context of contemporary events in Europe.
- What is poetry?: an introduction to common techniques underlying free verse and traditional forms of poetry.
Enjoy!
PS if there are any OpenLearn units you would particularly like to see given the daily feeds treatment, please post a comment back here identifying the course unit title and the course code identifier 
If you’re looking for a new daily learning feed, why not try one of the following new releases:
- The market-led organisation: how marketing can help your organisation. (Blog also demonstrates use of the AmazonFeed plugin.)
- French: Ouverture: a language course that concentrates on French as a tool for communication, as well as providing some insights into French society and culture.
- Information on the web: foundational skills on how to use search engines confidently to locate both information and images on the Web.
- Studying mammals: a winning design: the first in a series of units intended to complement the BBC TV series and book on The Life of Mammals.
Enjoy!
PS if there are any OpenLearn units you would particularly like to see given the daily feeds treatment, please post a comment back here identifying the course unit title and the course code identifier 
Welcome to LearningFeeds, a multi-blog environment set up to explore various ways of publishing OpenLearn course unit content in a blog-like environment.
As with many other open courseware (OCW) and open educational resource (OER) initiatives, the OpenLearn project from the UK’s Open University has released a wide range of educational materials under an open license in order to encourage third party use and reuse of the materials…
…which means that I (or you) can grab a copy of the materials and do with them what we will - such as republish them here
Although the publishing system I’m using to republish the course units - Wordpress Multiuser - is quite capable of allowing people to add comments to posts, I’ve disabled commenting for the moment.
Instead, the main aim of LearningFeeds is to provide an environment for the drip feed delivery of course unit content via RSS feeds using a specially created Wordpress plugin: just subscribe to a “daily feed” from an OpenLearn unit, and each day you’ll get a single item from that course. Over a period of two to three weeks, you’ll be able to follow the whole course unit just by reading a small chunk a day in your favorite feed reader.
Although there are hundreds of course units on the OpenLearn website, I won’t be publishing them all at once. Instead, I’ll release a few units a week - and announce them here (along with the occasional post about just how the LearningFeeds site was put together…).
So if you make yourself ready, I’ll post links to the first couple of units in the New Year (that is, sometime tomorrow….;-)
But for now, it’s time to see the old year out…