Open Educational Resources (OER) Index

 

Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.

 

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A-Z

Repository

Source

Description

A

Aduni

ArsDigita University

This site serves a dual purpose. It is here to tell the story of ArsDigita University (ADU) and it is here to carry on the school's mission of supplying free education. Toward this latter end, ADUni.org provides all course materials and lectures generated during the program to the general public for free use.

 

AESharenet

AESharenet

AEShareNet connects people who are looking for learning materials with those who own them. There are now two options available: Instant Licences, which are freely available, when you attach a relevant Mark; and Mediated licences, which are transacted online through the AEShareNet Service.

 

Apple Learning Exchange

Apple

A searchable database of "thousands of Internet resources that can be valuable for teaching and learning"

 

ARIADNE Repository

ARIADNE

A European Association open to the World, for Knowledge Sharing and Reuse. The core of the ARIADNE infrastructure is a distributed network of learning repositories.

 

Artificial Intelligence topics

American Association for Artificial Intelligence

AI TOPICS is a special web site provided by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence [AAAI] for students, teachers, journalists, and everyone who would like to learn about what artificial intelligence is, and what AI scientists do.

B

Berklee Shares

U. Berklee

Here you will find free music lessons that you can download, share and trade with your friends and fellow musicians. Berklee Shares is: 1) Individual self-contained music lessons developed by Berklee faculty and alumni. 2) Free and open to the music community around the world. 3) A library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files. 4) A glimpse into the educational opportunities provided by Berklee.

 

Blue Web'n

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Blue Web'n is an online library of 2008 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also browse by broad subject area (Content Areas) or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). See "About this Site" for a scoring rubric and answers to other burning questions!

C

CAREO

(Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects)

University of Calgary

CAREO is a project supported by Alberta Learning and CANARIE that has as its primary goal the creation of a searchable, Web-based collection of multidisciplinary teaching materials for educators across the province and beyond.

  CITIDEL Cooperative effort of Virginia Tech, Villanova, TCNJ, Hofstra, and PSU.
Funded by the National Science Foundation.
A collaboration between Hofstra University, the College of New Jersey, Pennsylvania State University, Villanova University and Virginia Tech, as part of the US National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library Project, to create a portal to computing education. CITIDEL is a digital library of educational resources for the computing field, harvested from ten differerent source collections.

 

Civicus

Civicus

CUS aims to help civil society organisations to build their capacity and achieve their goals. Based on requests from members, CIVICUS has produced several toolkits to enable organisations to improve their capacity in a number of areas. From communications and planning skills to writing funding proposals, we hope that you will be able to get many useful tips, tools, and ideas to help strengthen your organisation. Toolkits are available in English, French, Spanish and Russian in MS Word and PDF formats.

 

 

CLOE

University of Waterloo

The Co-operative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE) is a collaboration between Ontario universities and colleges for the development, sharing, and reuse of multimedia-rich learning resources. This occurs through the CLOE Learning Object repository.

 

Connexions

Rice University

Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools to help authors publish and collaborate instructors rapidly build and share custom courses learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines. The Content of Commons contains small "knowledge chunks" we call modules that connect into courses. Thanks to a Creative Commons open license, anyone can take our materials, adapt them to meet their needs, and contribute them back to the Commons. And everyone is invited to participate!

 

Content Bank

The Children’s Partnership

Contentbank aims to spur the development of online content and tools for and by low-income and other underserved Americans.

 

CORE

China Open Resource for Education

CORE¡ªChina Open Resource for Education--- is a non-profit organization. Her mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities, which CORE envisions as the future of world education.

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DAREnet

SURF Foundation

DAREnet was launched in January 2004. Intentionally to demonstrate the network of the local collections of digital documentation held by all the Dutch universities and several related institutions, presenting them to the user in a consistent form. This also makes it possible to search one or more of the repositories concerned. DAREnet is unique. No other nation in the world offers such easy access to its complete academic research output in digital form.

 

Development Gateway

Development Gateway Foundation

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research. Their goal with this service is to support efforts to equalize access to education, and to improve life chances for people in developing countries. This site will serve as a freely accessible venue for the aggregation and dissemination of OERs worldwide.

 

Digital Divide Network

Center for Media & Community at the Education Development Center

The Digital Divide Network is the Internet's largest community for educators, activists, policy makers and concerned citizens working to bridge the digital divide. At DDN, you can build your own online community, publish a blog, share documents and discussions with colleagues, and post news, events and articles.

 

DLorn

Stephen Downes

One-stop source for learning object syndication. They retrieve learning object metadata from across the web and store it here.

E

Edna

Educational Network Australia

EdNA Online is a service that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia. It is organised around Australian curriculum, its tools are free to Australian educators, and it is funded by the bodies responsible for education provision in Australia - all Australian governments.

 

Education Reform Portal

National Institute for Community Innovations

The National Institute for Community Innovations, in collaboration with a growing number of internationally recognized expert communities in educational reform, has developed national networks of leaders skilled in assisting schools, districts, preparation programs and large-scale educational systems to plan and undertake sustained educational reform efforts with regard to the reform dimensions below. Each of these networks has identified exemplary, free and inexpensive professional development materials about proven and promising reform strategies and resources in a given reform dimension.

 

EduResources Portal

Eastern Oregon University

A Gateway to Higher Education Instructional Resources.

 

eGranary Digital Library

The University of Iowa

The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access.  Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE our partner institutions in developing countries, we deliver millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost.

 

Eldis

Eldis

Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research. Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research.

 

e-Lee

e-LEE Association (e-learning tools for electrical engineering)

The association named "Association for promotion of e-Learning tools for Electrical Engineering", or, on short "e-LEE Association", has as aim the promotion and evaluation of the multimedia learning tools for the engineering teaching, more specifically for electrical engineering.

 

ESCOT Component Catalogue

National Science Foundation

Educational Software Components of Tomorrow (ESCOT) is a National Science Foundation research project (REC-9804930) at SRI International's Center for Technology in Learning. We are investigating how software innovations can accumulate, integrate, and scale up to meet the needs of systemic reform of K-12 mathematics and science education.

 

Ethiopian Teacher Education Portal

AED/BESO Project

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EEVL

(Enhanced and Evaluated Virtual Library)

 

EEVL is the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. EEVL's mission is to provide access to quality networked engineering, mathematics and computing resources, and be the national focal point for online access to information in these subjects. It is an award-winning free service, created and run by a team of information specialists from a number of universities and institutions in the UK.

F

Fathom Archive

Fathom Knowledge Network

This archive, provided by Columbia University, offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions. Columbia encourages you to browse this archive of online learning resources, including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and free seminars. You can find additional online resources from Columbia University at ci.columbia.edu or  cero.columbia.edu and from the members of the Fathom consortium at their own websites.

 

Filamentality

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A "fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities."

G

Free-Ed

Free-Ed.net

The mission of Free-Ed.Net is to provide quality distance education at no cost to the user. Free education is a dream whose time has come. Never in history has so much information and so many learning resources been so widely available at such a low cost.

 

GEM

Gateway to Educational Materials

The Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

 

GFC Global Learning

GCG Global Learning

Offering free, beginning computer courses and other learning opportunities world-wide in English and Spanish.

 

Gutenberg Project

Gutenberg Project

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

H

Harvey Project

Harvey Project

An international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build interactive, dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web. Materials produced by the Harvey Project will be made freely available to any educational institution.

 

Humbul Humanities Hub

University of Oxford

The Humbul Humanities Hub aims to be UK higher and further education's first choice for accessing online humanities resources.

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iberry.com iberry.com

iberry.com is a non-profit making, private website, serving the international academic community since 1999. It is home to the highly-focused Higher Education Links List (HELL), providing information and resources for educators, researchers and others with an interest in Higher Education (HE).

 

IBM University Initiative

IBM

The IBM University Initiative helps faculty and researchers at higher education institutions worldwide use and implement the latest technology into curriculum and research. By joining, you will gain access to software, hardware, training, course materials, and more!

 

ICONEX

University of Hull

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ICT4D.ph

Dept. of Science and technology of Philippines and the IDRC of Canada

"Learning from Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) Research to Enhance Policymaking ( Philippines )" is a project of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). It is supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, through its program initiative, Pan Asia Networking (PAN). The project aims to identify the transformational impact of ICT on Philippine society and from the learnings distilled from the different ICT4D projects undertaken, transform these learnings into policies and actions. ICT4D includes digital and interactive technologies as well as technologies which provide for interfaces between traditional and new technologies. The use of those technologies should be development-oriented.

 

ICTdev Library

Commonwealth Telecom Organization

The CTO's ICT Development Digital Library (ICT DevLibrary) provides a unique collection of ICT-for-development reports and documents for policy-makers and practitioners in developing countries. It uniquely provides direct, “one-click” access to these documents, and makes these often bulky documents accessible to users on low bandwidth connections. Stocked with key reports published by the leading organisations in the field, the ICT Development Library supplements ICT Development Agenda, the CTO’s web-based newsletter which provides breaking, objective updates on the outcomes of decision-making meetings and summaries of important new reports.

 

ICTlogy

Ismael Peña

ICT4D Courses is a learning objects repository focused on development and cooperation for development, with a strong commitment on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). All of them are licensed for free or under determinate licenses that allow you to use them almost freely - details on specific licenses will appear attached to respective learning materials.

 

IDEAS 

(Interactive Dialogue with Educators from Across the State)

University of Wisconsin

IDEAS provides Wisconsin educators access to high-quality, highly usable, teacher-reviewed web-based resources for curricula, content, lesson plans, professional development and other selected resources. These resources help Wisconsin educators use technology to meet the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards and create the foundation for a statewide knowledge management system.

 

IIIKM

(International Institute of Innovation & Knowledge Management)

A Joint project of Knowledge Management Society of Pakistan and
Free and Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan

To Be an Enduring World-Class Institute of Emerging Disciplines Promoting Knowledge Capitalism for the betterment of Individuals, Organizations and Societies through Education & Research.

 

InfoDev

The infoDev Program

infoDev is an innovative global partnership of international development agencies focused on how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help to combat poverty and promote opportunity, empowerment and economic growth in developing countries.  This partnership is coordinated and served by an expert Secretariat housed at the World Bank, one of infoDev's principal donors and founders.

 

Isoph Institute

Isoph

The Isoph Institute is a resource center dedicated to the development of the organizational effectiveness of nonprofits through online education, training, and collaboration. By providing online courses, resources, and tools, we make it possible for people committed to the growth and development of nonprofits to access the information and skills they need.

 

ItrainOnline's Training Kit

Itrain Online

Supported by ItrainOnline partner UNESCO and others, the MMTK is a growing collection of "workshop kits" for face-to-face training. The materials use a standard set of templates, and offer building blocks for trainers to build their own courses. 

J

JHSPH OCW

 

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OpenCourseWare (OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses. It provides free, searchable, access to JHSPH's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.

 

JORUM (JISC)

Joint Information Systems Committee

JORUM is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.

K

KM4Dev

Bellanet

KM for Development (KM4Dev) is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches.

L

La Brecha Digital

El Portal de la Brecha Digital

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LAMS Community

LAMS

This website is the global online community for all teachers, administrators and developers that use LAMS. Within the various subcommunities, you can access the latest news about LAMS, many different discussion forums, and a repository of shared LAMS sequences.

 

LearnAlberta.ca

Alberta Education/ Government of Alberta

 

LearnAlberta.ca supports lifelong learning by providing quality online resources to the Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K-12) community in Alberta. Students, teachers, and parents can use the site to find multimedia learning resources that are correlated to the Alberta programs of study. LearnAlberta.ca provides a reliable and innovative repository of resources developed by Alberta Education in consultation with stakeholders; it is available for users at any time on the Internet.

 

 

Learning About Learning Objects

Learning About Learning Objects

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LearningLanguages.net

Internet Scout Project and the University of Wisconsin
College of Letters and Sciences, with funding from the Claire Giannini Hoffman Fund.

LearningLanguages.net is a portal that brings together the best online foreign language resources for English-speaking K-12 students and teachers. The project was created, and is maintained and enhanced, by a team of staff and students at the Internet Scout Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

LOLA Exchage

Wesleyan University

LoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. It contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy.

 

 

London School of Economics

London School of Economics

Public Lectures and Transcripts from a range of speakers and invited lecturers.

 

 

Lydia Global Repository

Lydia

LydiaLearn starts with LydiaPower, a new way to bring publishers in need of educational content and those who could offer it, together. A simple proposition, yes, but with a solution that included algorithmic rating systems, dynamic repositories of ever-growing and improving content, and a means of tracking and securing payment that would be a win for all involved.

M

Managing the Digital
Enterprise

Michael Rappa

An educational site created by Michael Rappa that surveys the many opportunities and challenges managers face in an increasingly digital world.

 

Maricopa Learning Exchange

Maricopa

The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.

 

Math Forum

 

One of the oldest collections of learning materials on the Internet, The Math Forum is a leading center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet. The Math Forum is a learning repository for both interactive and text-based materials as well as a site for mathematics educators and learners to engage in person-to-person interactions, and discuss and exchange educational products and services. The Math Forum encourages the exchange of educational materials by facilitating dialog and connections among educators.

 

Merlot

Merlot

MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.

 

MIT Dspace

MIT

MIT's online institutional repository — built to save, share, and search MIT's digital research materials.

 

MIT OpenCourseWare

 

Master Course List

 

Video & Audio Index

 

MIT

A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.

 

MIT World

MIT

MIT World is a free, open streaming media web site of the most significant public events at MIT. It features the most recent speakers and guests from across the campus and around the world. It is a project of the Professional Education Programs at MIT's School of Engineering.

  Monterey Institute for Technology and Education National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

A growing library of high-quality online courses for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement. Courses in the NROC library are contributed by developers from leading online-learning programmes across the US. All courses are assessed to ensure they meet high standards of scholarship, instructional value and presentational impact.

N

NEEDS

(National Engineering Education Delivery System)

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The National Engineering Education Delivery System is a digital library of learning resources for engineering education. NEEDS provides web-based access to a database of learning resources where the user (whether they be learners or instructors) can search for, locate, download, and comment on resources to aid their learning or teaching process. In addition NEEDS supports a multi-tier evaluation system from our national award competition with sponsors from industry to user-based reviews of individual learning resources.

 

NLN Learning Materials

National Learning Network / Becta

Since the NLN programme first began in 1999, the NLN Materials Team based at Becta has been responsible for commissioning and managing the development of over 800 hours of e-learning materials across a wide range of subjects, working in partnership with subject matter experts in FE colleges and commercial developers.

 

NSDL

National Science Digital Library 

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

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OAISTER

University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service

OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Our goal is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources (what are digital resources?) that are easily searchable by anyone.

 

Online Free Courses information

78 Degrees

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OOPS

http://www.twocw.net (traditional Chinese)

http://www.cocw.net (simplified Chinese)

http://oops.editme.com/  (for Volunteers)

Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System

Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS) is a grass roots effort to localize MIT's OCW into Chinese.

  OpenCourseWare Consortium Portal
 
The OpenCourseWare Consortium

Search for content across more than 50 existing OCW projects for the courses they are interested in, including materials from five language translation partners. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

 

Open Courseware Laboratory

North Carolina State University

The Open Courseware Laboratory was founded at North Carolina State University in 1998 by Professor Michael Rappa. The mission of the Lab is to invent novel ways of using the Internet to promote the open exchange of knowledge within the academic community. This includes the provision of research and course materials that are made freely available on the World Wide Web for non-commercial use.

 

Open Content Alliance (OCA)

 

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo!

 

Open Content Initiative (OCI)

Open University, UK

The Open Content Initiative (OCI) will make educational resources freely available on the Internet, with state of the art learning support and collaboration tools to connect students and educators.

  OpenEducation.com OpenEducation.com

Directory of free educational resources. The current goal of OpenEducation.com is to provide a comprehensive directory of all kinds of free educational resources that can be used by schools, students, and teachers from all around the world.

  OER Commons Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.

  Open Learning Initiative Carnegie Mellon University

A collection of "cognitively informed," openly available and free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course in an online format.

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Peoi

Peoi

PEOI's goal is to extend the benefit of on line education to those who have been deprived
of access to education because of location, time constraints and/or lack of income. In the
United States, PEOI will work with other institutions to diminish the information
technology divide. In developing countries, PEOI wants to play a role in diffusion of
management technology and become a tool of economic development policy.

 

Physics Textbooks

Benjamin Crowell

This site offers physics textbooks that you can download for free or buy in print. The books have been adopted at ten colleges and universities, and 14 high schools.

 

Princeton University’s Web Media Lectures

Princeton University

A collection of streaming media files captured from a wide range of invited guests and lecturers.

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ResearchChannel - Series Titles

(Video library)

Research Channel

ResearchChannel is a nonprofit media and technology organization that connects a global audience with the research and academic institutions whose developments, insights and discoveries affect our lives and futures.

 

Resource Discovery Network

Resource Discovery Network

The Resource Discovery Network is the UK's free national gateway to Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. The service currently links to more than 100,000 resources via a series of subject-based information gateways (or hubs). The RDN is primarily aimed at Internet users in UK further and higher education but is freely available to all.

S

Schoolnet Africa

Schoolnet Africa

The African Education Knowledge Warehouse (AEKW) is a pan-African education portal which services African SchoolNet practitioners, policymakers and school-based communities on ICTs in education across Africa.

 

SciQ

SciQ

SciQ is a collaborative partnership project that fosters science learning for K-12 students in Alberta and Canada. Since its inception in 2001, SciQ has focused on combining engaging science-related content with innovative technology to provide learning resources for students, teachers and parents.

 

SMETE Repository directory Math/Science

SMETE Open Federation

The SMETE Digital Library is a dynamic online library and portal of services by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students. Here you can access a wealth of teaching and learning materials as well as join this expanding community of science, math, engineering and technology explorers of all ages. If you're a student, you'll have access to resources that can help you prepare for a class or exam. If you're a teacher or professor, you can find learning materials you can use in your classroom right away.

 

Sofia Project

Foothill - De Anza Community College District

The Sofia project is an open content initiative launched by the Foothill - De Anza Community College District, which promotes faculty and institutional sharing of online content. Modeled after MIT’s OpenCourseWare Initiative, Sofia encourages the free exchange of community college-level materials on the World Wide Web.

 

South African Curriculum

Wikimedia

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Stanford on iTunes

Stanford University

Stanford on iTunes provides access to a wide range of Stanford-related digital audio content via the iTunes Music Store, Apple’s popular music jukebox and online music store. The project includes two sites: 1) A public site, targeted primarily at alumni, which includes Stanford faculty lectures, learning materials, music, sports, and more. 2) An access-restricted site for students delivering course-based materials and advising content.

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Techsoup

Compumentor

Powered by CompuMentor, one of the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit technology assistance agencies, TechSoup.org offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support. In addition to online information and resources, we offer a product philanthropy service called TechSoup Stock. Here, nonprofits can access donated and discounted technology products, generously provided by corporate and nonprofit technology partners.

 

The Commonwealth of Learning LOR

Commonwealth of e-Learning

An online database of learning content that provides software to Commonweath countries free of charge. Institutions or governments can establish a shared repository by accessing free open source software from COL's LOR.

 

The Golden Swamp Subject Sampler

Goldenswamp

The Golden Swamp to which this website is dedicated is the open Internet. Here is why I call the Internet the Golden Swamp: The definition as a "swamp" applies because the open Internet contains a lot of junk that mingles with the content that is not junk.

 

TrainingPoint

CompassPoint Nonprofit Services

TrainingPoint is an experimental project with the goal of creating an online resource for the nonprofit sector that is supported and driven by its community of users. TrainingPoint is a free online service for nonprofit organizations and trainers that offers users the ability to upload and download freely distributable technology curriculum.

 

Tufts OpenCourseWare

Tufts University

Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT where course content is accessible for free to everyone online.

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University of Arizona - Searchable Video Library (SVL)

University of Arizona

This service has been designed to provide students and faculty access to video presentations and taped class lectures through a searchable interface. Videos are transcribed by state-of-the-art voice recognition or closed-captioning so that the spoken text of the presentation can be searched.

 

University of California eScholarship Repository

University of California

The repository is a service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the individual University of California units.

 

University of Winnsconsin at Milwaukee

University of Winnsconsin at Milwaukee

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UniversitySurf

UniversitySurf

UniversitySurf is a free and open educational resource center for the French-speaking community around the world. It offers a selection of more than 1200 courses on line in French, and giving access to thousands of others by the means of links. The teaching courses or resources come from the 90 French Universities, High Schools, CNRS centers, French-speaking foreign Universities, or of the many personal sites of teachers.                                

 

UOC Cooperació

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

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UT OCW

University of Tokyo

The OpenCourseWare of the University of Tokyo (UT OCW) is a free and open Web site on which is presented course calendar, syllabus, educational notes and texts of the University of Tokyo.

 

 

USU OCW

Utah State University

USU OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout Utah and around the world. OCW supports USU's mission to serve the public through learning, discovery, and engagement. It is true to USU's guiding principle - "academics first.

 

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VCILT

University of Mauritius

LOR (Learning Objects Repository) is a project undertaken by VCILT - University of Mauritius. Here you can access a wealth of teaching and learning materials as well as help our LOR Community to grow.

 

Vega Science Trust

 

(Freeview Video on the Web)

Vega Science Trust

The Vega Science Trust aims to create a broadcast platform for the science, engineering and technology (SET) communities, so enabling them to communicate on all aspects of their fields of expertise using the exciting new TV and Internet opportunities.

 

Virtual Training Suite

Resource Discovery Network

Set of free online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information literacy and IT skills. Work in your own time at your own pace - no one is monitoring you! There are quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience.

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W3Schools

 

At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, Multimedia and WAP.

 

WebJunction

OCLC Online Computer Library Center

WebJunction is an online community where library staff meet to share ideas, solve problems, take online courses - and have fun.

 

Wikipedia

Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is a non-profit organization with the goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world. Meeting this goal through the maintenance, development and distribution of free content, Wikimedia relies on public donations to run its wiki-based projects.

 

Wisc-Online

Wisc-Online

The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects for the online environment. At present, 304 WTCS faculty members have authored learning objects. The Wisc-Online digital library contains 1,996 objects that are accessible to all WTCS faculty at no cost and with copyright clearance for use in any WTCS classroom or online application. Other colleges, universities, and consortia from throughout the United States and around the world use the library with permission.

 

World Lecture Hall

University of Texas at Austin

World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. Some courses are delivered entirely over the Internet. Others are designed for students in residence. Many fall somewhere in between. In all cases, they can be visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet — faculty, developers, and curious students alike.

 

Compiled by: Zaid Ali Alsagoff
Last Updated:
5/03/2007