In the past decades there have been several initiatives to broaden access to the learning traditionally offered through formal education systems. The boundaries between formal and non-formal education are becoming more and more blurred and there are ever-growing open practices and a wider range of Open Educational Resources (OERs) which aim for ‘opening up’ education to anyone, anywhere. In this course we will look at the open provision of educational resources and practices for language learning, which have been enabled by information and communication technologies.