Introduction

We are interested in knowing more about the people who have discovered our free educational resources on The Open University’s OpenLearn website. The aim of the survey is to help us improve what we offer and to share our findings to help others. By answering the survey questions, you are consenting to us using your anonymised data for research and dissemination purposes. All the answers you provide to the following questions will be held securely. Our data protection policy complies with the UK’s data protection legislation.

This survey uses SurveyMonkey, which is certified under the UK extension of the EU-U.S Data Privacy Framework and is considered compliant with GDPR by the European Commission. Although this survey is completely anonymous, you can review our privacy notice for more information about how we process personal data.

The survey should take around 5 minutes to complete and questions marked with an asterisk (*) require an answer. You can stop answering the survey at any time by closing your browser. Your answers will be completely anonymous and any information you provide will be stored securely and not released to any third party. It will not be possible to identify any individual from any published account of the results of this study. We will treat all data we collect from this survey as confidential.

Completion of the questions in the survey that follows indicates that you have read and understood the above information and in doing so, consent to be part of this research. If you have questions regarding this study, you may contact us by email at openlearn@open.ac.uk. Your participation is greatly valued.

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