open+courseware

Large repositories of free knowledge on the web: YouTube - Education Academic Earth Khan Academy

10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should)


 * 50 Open Source Tools That Replace Popular Education Apps listed by subject

Creative Commons Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration. OER Resources Finding OER

OCW - Open Courseware Consortium

Curriki Known as the “next generation wiki” for K-12 education; it is an online community and wiki platform for teachers, learners, and education experts to share, reuse, and remix quality curricula. Teachers can find and develop resources, share lesson plans, and collaborate on courses with others in their school or around the world. All content is available under CC BY.

Free Online Course Materials - MIT Open Courseware MIT OCW has over 1900 courses available freely and openly online for anyone, anywhere to adapt, translate, and redistribute. MIT Open Courseware - Highlights for High School

CK12.org - FlexBooks Focusing specifically on textbooks for K-12 schools, the nonprofit works with states and institutions to build web-based, collaborative “flexbooks” that are free to use and adapt via CC BY-SA.

Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities Repository and collaborative platform of educational materials that breaks down larger collections, such as textbooks and courses, into basic building blocks known as modules. Each module has a corresponding web page, so educators can mix and match pages to create custom collections. All modules and collections are licensed CC BY so can they be edited, translated, and adapted as well.

Bloomsbury Academic Publishes “world-class research-based books across the humanities and social sciences, with a strong commitment to the traditional virtues of scholarly publishing, including rigorous peer-review.”

Flat World Knowledge Commercial textbook publisher that incorporates CC licenses into their business model.

Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) A grassroots education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU provides the social environment necessary to learning for free anywhere at anytime. P2PU is teaching and learning by peers for peers and it is run and governed by volunteers. It builds on educational content that is free from copyright restrictions or licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

WikiEducator

Harvard University Extension School The Harvard Extension School’s Open Learning Initiative brings a selection of noncredit online courses featuring Harvard faculty to the public for free.

Open Access Week

Open Access Week at Athabasca University