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Units & Unit Writing

This page:

• Existing OCN Units
• Writing New Units

This page provides you with a starting point for finding and writing OCN Units.

Existing OCN Units

There are many existing OCN Units which centres might want to use in programmes:

• National Open College Network Units: these come from both NOCN Qualifications and can be accessed from the NOCN Qualifications Guides at the NOCN web site. You will need a user name and password to access the qualification guides- contact OCNKM office for details.
• Searchable OCN Unit Library - this is an open access resource offered by a group of OCNs (Greater Manchester OCN, North Wales OCN, South East Wales OCN, and South West Wales OCN). You simply need to give your email address to have access to this bank of units. Note that this contains a wide range of units some of which may not be recommended by OCNKM for use in programmes - contact an OCNKM Development Officer before finally incorporating these units in a programme.
  

When using existing units it is very important that you obtain the unit code and include this in your submission to OCN Kent & Medway. If there is more than one code for a unit please include both as one will probably be a local database code and the other will be an NOCN code.

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Writing New Units

Where possible we advise using existing OCN validated units within new programmes (either NOCN or local OCN validated), however if no suitable unit can be found then with support from OCNKM a new unit(s) can be written.

• A Guide to Unit Writing which was developed by the Southern Region group of OCNs is available here as a download document.
• An OCN Unit Description Template is also available here as a download.

An OCN Development Officer will provide support to staff in centres who decide to write new units as a part of their programme submissions. Please contact OCNKM for further help with unit writing.

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