OCW / OER
Open Course Ware & Open Educational Resources
Search
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This Google customed search engine enables you to search the sites that are linked from this post (with a few filters, too).
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Click here to view Tony Hirst’s (Credit to him for the super idea!) OER/OCW search version, which also searches sites linked on this post.
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Click here to view Scott Leslie’s upgraded version, which brings it to a Do-It-Together level by using a Wiki enabling anyone to add OER/OCW links (URLs).
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The OCW Finder currently shows results from several collections, including MIT OCW , Utah State University, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW, Tufts University OCW, Foothill De-Anza SOFIA, and Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative.
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Makes it easy for open education resource providers to provide links to related resources. A good starting point to search and find relevant OER resources.
Directories
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A global teaching and learning network of free-to-use resources – from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware – for you to use, tag, rate, and review.
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You will find 7 groups of subject-specific open courseware, including specialized resources for each subject. It is an annotated listing of publicly available courseware (lecture notes, handouts, slides, tutorial material, exam questions, quizzes, videos, demonstrations, etc) from the world’s universities, colleges and other educational institutions.
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The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
- Academic EarthAn educational video website with the goal of enhancing the usability and expanding the awareness of OER, focusing first on video lectures.
Communities
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An evolving community intended for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of OER. development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs.
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Wikibooks, Collection of open-content textbooks. Wikiversity is intended for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities.
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This site was originally created by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) as a place where members of the UNESCO OER Community can work together on questions, issues and documents. There are some wonderful resources here providing you with relevant information needed to understand what OER is about, how to use/contribute/collaborate, and how to move forward (e.g. OER: the Way Forward , OER stories, OER presentations and UNESCO OER Toolkit)
News
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An initiative from MIT’s OpenCourseWare project to aggregate and stimulate discussion about open educational resources. It is a great resource to keep yourself updated about the latest trends and developments in OCW and OER.
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A number of individuals from the US, South Africa, and eventually other locations daily monitor the internet for news related to open education. It is essentially a group blog.
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Open Education – Free Education For All
This site led by Thomas J. Hanson is dedicated to tracking the changes occurring in education today.
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This weblog by Joseph Hart focuses on locating, evaluating, discussing, and providing guidelines to instructional resources for faculty and students in higher education (HE). The emphasis is on free, shared, HE resources.
OCW collections shared by special people
University related learning content
Unites States
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Harvard University
- Harvard Business Online (Podcasts)
- Harvard – Homeric Odyssey..Justice (Podcasts)
- Harvard – Kennedy School of Gov (Podcasts)
- Harvard Law School (Podcasts)
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Berkeley
- UC Irvine (OCW)
- University of California, Berkeley (Podcasts)
- Berkeley on iTunes (Podcasts)
- University of California (Berkeley) (YouTube)
- CalTech Today (Podcasts)
- Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (Podcasts)
- Berkeley Resources (Podcasts)
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Princeton
- UChannel (Princeton) (YouTube)
- Princeton U’s Event SM (Podcasts)
- Princeton U’s New Media Center (Podcasts)
- Princeton University Channel (Podcasts)
- Princeton University WebMedia (Podcasts)
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Stanford University
- Stanford on iTunes (Podcasts)
- Stanford University (Edu. Corner) (Podcasts)
- Stanford University Audio/Video (Podcasts)
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Johns Hopkins University
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (OCW)
- Johns Hopkins U (Podcasts)
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Carnegie Mellon University
- Open Learning Initiative (OCW)
- Carnegie Mellon (YouTube)
Other OCW:
Other YouTube Channels:
Other Podcast Libraries:
- Knowledge Wharton
- Chicago University GSB
- Alleghany College
- American University (Law)
- Arizona State University
- Boston College (Front Row)
- Buffalo State College
- Butte College
- Carleton University Television
- Case School of Law
- Center for Int. Studies (Chicago)
- College of DuPage
- Dartmouth Chance
- Drexel University
- Duke University Multimedia
- Georgetown University Forum
- Georgetown University Webcasts
- Georgia College & State U
- Kansas State University (Landon)
- Lewis & Clark Law School
- Mathematical Sc. Res. Inst.
- Montclair State University
- Perdue Boilercast
- Rockefeller University
- Southwest Tech’s CourseCasts
- St. Edward’s University
- Swarthmore College U Lectures
- UCLA Bruincast
- UCLA Webcasts
- University of Arizona College of Law
- University of British Columbia
- University of California TV
- University of Connecticut
- University of New South Wales
- University of Oregon
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas
- University of Virginia
- University of Warwick
- University of Washington TV
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Vanderbilt University
- Weber University
- Western Kentucky University
- York College Lectures
Europe
United Kingdom
- The Open University
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Cambridge University (Podcasts)
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London School of Economics (Podcasts)
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University of Nottingham (Podcasts)
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Oxford Internet University (Podcasts)
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University of Bath (Podcasts)
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Times-Online MBA Broadcasts (Podcasts)
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Oxford University Saïd Business School (YouTube)
France
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ParisTech “Graduate School” (11 universities – French)
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Grenoble Ecole de Management (French)
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UniversitySurf (French)
Holland
- Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) (English)
- Open Universiteit Nederland (Dutch)
Spain
- OpenCourseWare Universia (10 universities – Spanish, Catalan, Galician)
Switzerland
- European Graduate School (EGS) (YouTube)
Asia
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
India
Korea
Taiwan
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National Chiao Tung University (Chinese)
Vietnam
Hong Kong
South America
Mexico
- Tecnológico de Monterrey (Spanish)
- Universidad de Monterrey (Spanish)
Translation Affliates
- China Open Resources for Education (Simplified Chinese)
- Chulalongkorn University (Thai)
- Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (Traditional Chinese)
- Universia (Portuguese)
- Universia (Spanish)
Others
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Novell OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational materials developed by Novell Training Services for authorized courses and other customer training purposes.
General
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Wikipedia is an amazing encyclopedia (of anything you can think of!) written collaboratively by many of its readers.
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Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials.
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Free-content online news source where any site visitor can add or edit stories.
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Answers.com offers free access to millions of topics from the world’s leading publishers.
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The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
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Offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and free seminars.
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The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) is an international consortium that strives to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world.
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dgCommunities (Provided by Development Gateway Foundation) is a collaborative space for professionals working to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development worldwide (Members in more than 200 countries).
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HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations.
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An entry point to free online course materials from around the world.
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Is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here.
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AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer – Blue Web’n Homepage
Blue Web’n is a huge online library categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). The content categories available are: arts, business, education, English, foreign languages, health, history and social studies, maths, science, technology among others.
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Monterey Institute for Technology and Education National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)
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 programs across the US.
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Is a social network for educators, where you can find content ranging from simple lesson ideas to in-depth curriculum units for K-12 and Higher Education.
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The core of the ARIADNE infrastructure is a distributed network of learning repositories.
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The Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects (CAREO) project aims to create both an online repository of educational objects for post-secondary educators and a community that both creates and supports those objects.
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A free online service providing you with access to Web resources for education and research. Areas: Science and Technology, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Health and Life, and Sciences.
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An initiative by the University of Wisconsin to identify, evaluate, catalog, and align to the Wisconsin education standards resources that are already on the Internet, such as lesson plans and reference materials.
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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.
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Web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources.
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Internet site for Open Source Curriculum (OSC), which will provide universal access to free curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12.
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DAREnet is a search service which gives free access to academic research output in the Netherlands. DAREnet consists of more than 146.000 digital objects.
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Education Network Australia (edna) is Australia’s leading online resource collection and collaborative network for the education and training community.
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EducaNext is a service supporting the creation and sharing of knowledge for Higher Education.
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A collective catalog of teaching and learning resources gathered by various organizations involved in the production of ITC educational resources.
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Including Touch Typing Skills, European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), British Computer Society (BCS) Unit E, Financial Literacy and e-Citizen.
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Multimedia and course materials that can help students with their homework and studies.
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Is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as “packages”) that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.
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Professional Educational Organization International (PEOI) was created, and is run by volunteers who believe that it is time for open post secondary education be made available to all free of charge.
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Here you can find over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented Websites.
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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.
Education
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Online community for sharing instructional videos.
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Audio and video educational technology podcasts providing you tips, guidance and ideas on how to use different learning tools to facilitate effective learning.
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GEM (Gateway to 21st Century Skills)
Thousands of free lesson plans and other teaching and learning resources.
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SuTree is a knowledge community and an aggregator of instructional & educational videos.
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A community of educators interested in discussing and learning about the uses of educational technology. They webcast several live shows each week.
Science & Engineering
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Free access to high-quality scientific video lectures.
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Computer Science Teaching Center
A digital archive of peer reviewed resources for teaching computer science. Submission restricted to registered users.
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Computing and IT Interactive Digital Educational Library Repository (CITIDEL) is a great resource to discover computer Science education and research materials.
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e-LEE (Electrical Engineering)
e-Learning tools for Electrical Engineering.
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A project of Brown University’s Computer Graphics Research Group to create a set of exemplary Web-based learning objects (Java applets) that teach concepts in introductory computer graphics at the college and graduate level. Users can download complete Java applets, or build their own from the components collection.
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EEVL (Engineering, Maths & Comp.)
A guide to engineering, mathematics and computing information on the internet.
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iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.
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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.
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arXiv, set up by Cornell University, is an e-Print archive specializing in Physics, Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.
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HEAL (Health Education Assets Library)
HEAL’s mission is to provide free digital resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today’s health sciences educators.
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College of Health Professions (COHP) Online Learning Resources
Including Dental Hygiene, Health Science, Communicative Sciences & Disorders Medical Technology, Nursing Radiologic Sciences, Respiratory Therapy and Physical Therapy.
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
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John Locker – Free Documentaries
Educate yourself with free documentaries online on History, Science, Music, War, Religions, Politics, Conspiracies, and more!
Mathematics
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The Math Forum (Drexel University)
The Math Forum Is a the leading online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication since 1992, created by teachers, mathematicians, researchers, students, and parents. It offers a wealth of problems and puzzles, online mentoring, research, team problem solving, collaborations and professional development.
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A mathematical specific repository, created by Wolfram Research. Contains web based (HTML) resources about algebra, applied mathematics, calculus and analysis, discrete mathematics, geometry, history, number theory, probability, statistics and topology, etc.
Information Technology
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Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education.
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At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
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Edumax is an online learning website that provides free lessons on topics from personal development to computer programming.
Text Books
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In addition to searching, viewing and downloading books, you also receive links to reviews, references, and even a world map showing every location mentioned in the book.
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Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
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Research, ebooks, poetry, presentations, schoolwork, and more are all available on this site.
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Browse over 15,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.
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LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain (under U.S. right) books available as free audio books. It is a volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.
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The project will create open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a Web site.
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All of the books are offered for free by their respective copyright holders for online viewing. The categories of the textbooks are: Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Computers-Tech, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering, Health Sciences & Medical, History, Math and Physics.
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It collects, catalogues, preserves and distributes high-quality digital resources for research and teaching. They are currently holding thousands of texts in more than 25 different languages, and are actively working to extend their catalogue of holdings.
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This site offers free books, text books, and lecture notes for computer science, engineering, and computer programming students and professionals.
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A list of 300+ free programming books available on the Internet.
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Browse by author or title to find text for several books from the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World.
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Current, in-depth data on every country in the world.
Digital Libraries
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Will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials.
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The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.
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OAIster is a union catalog for a wide range of digital resources. They provide access to these digital resources by “harvesting” their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
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Find more than 10 different digital collections that range from medieval and early Renaissance manuscripts to architectural drawings or visit the online exhibitions for even more.
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- Library of Congress Digital Collections (US)
- It is considered the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
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Their goal is to preserve every printed book digitally in this resource. The library currently holds one million books in its collection.
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A digital library with links to online learning materials in engineering and related areas of science and math.
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NSDL – The National Science Digital Library (US)
The Nation’s (US) online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
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Provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access.
Digital Media
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Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers.
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A new and growing website, currently in its beta version, with a simple mission: to move the discussion away from talking heads and talking points, and give it back to you.
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FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world’s most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation.
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Free live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world’s foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders.
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Annenberg Media’s multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods.
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Flickr is photo distributed classification system. It is useful for managing and sharing photos over the Internet. If users want to use a photo of another photographer, if they have created an account they can contact each other through the Flickr intranet. Copyright issues are solved with Creative Commons Licences. You can find millions of free images here, which we can use to spice up our learning content.
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The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
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Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”
Youtube Channels
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Google events featuring everyone from newsmakers to bestselling authors (Joseph Stieglitz, Obama, Richard Florida, etc.).
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There are a large number of technical talks at Google. Many of these are videotaped, and some are made available for external viewing right here.
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It brings you fascinating insights into the minds of current and past Nobel Laureates.
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This is the YouTube version of TED Talks, which is a collection of inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers.
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The YouTube version of FORA.tv, which delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world’s most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation.
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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
It’s mission is to promote in-depth coverage of international affairs, focusing on topics that have been under-reported, mis-reported – or not reported at all. The videos you see in this YouTube collection are one part of larger reporting projects from around the world.
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The Best of British TV. Top Gear, Mighty Boosh, Doctor Who, Attenborough, Parkinson, Catherine Tate & the rest from BBC Worldwide!
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Inspiring People To Care About The Planet!
- University Youtube Collection
- Dan Coleman shares on his super smart media blog 50+ Smart Video Collections on YouTube (and growing!), which is simply an amazing collection. Although, YouTube unfortunately makes these collections difficult to find, Dan Coleman comes to the rescue!
- Personal Learning
- Stephen Downes is working on a new personal learning tool, and has some great ideas about what personal learning is all about.
- SciVee
- SciVee is an online science research sharing portal that invites scientists to make their research known by combining their published scientific article with a corresponding video into an online presentation called a “SciVee pubcast.”
- MIT Lecture Browser
- The Lecture Browser is a web interface to video recordings of lectures and seminars that have been indexed using automatic speech recognition technology. You can search for topics, much like a regular web search engine. If any results look relevant, you can play the video starting at the relevant point and see the synchronized transcript.
- The Lecture Browser is part of a research project on spoken lecture processing that is being undertaken by researchers in the Spoken Language Systems Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Their goal is to enable natural speech-based interaction between humans and machines.
- Educational YouTube Collections You Simply Do Not Want to Miss!
- The following excellent educational YouTube collection
- UC Berkeley
- Talks@Google
- The Nobel Prize
- TED Talks
- FORA.tv
- Philosophers and Theorists
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- BBC Worldwide
- UChannel
- National Geographic
- CASTTV (Computer how-to videos)Other University Channels: MIT, Vanderbilt and US
- YouTube Catcher
- YouTube Catcher is another tool that allows you to download YouTube videos easy and fast!
- You Tube Catcher – How do I do it?
1.Find a YouTube Video you want to download, and then Copy and paste its URL into the Download Video Box form.2.Then click the DOWNLOAD button to start. Please, REMEMBER to rename the file with a .flv extension.
3.To watch the FLV Videos on your computer device, you need a FLV Player. Click here to download a free FLV player. In addition, you can also convert these FLV videos to other formats like avi, mpeg, mp4. And you can transfer these videos to cellphones or Ipods!
Interestingly, this cool and easy-to-use tool allows you also to convert your YouTube videos to MP3 files directly from the site, in the same fashion as downloading them. If you don’t have time to watch your videos, you can at least listen do them on your Ipod (or MP3 player) while driving, or doing repetition work that requires no deep thinking!
- Professor Lewin Inspires Us to Learn Physics Again! (Video Lectures)
- Walter H. G. Lewin is currently a professor of Physics at MIT. Professor Lewin has long had a cult following at MIT, and now thanks to the Internet and initiatives like MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW), is part of a new generation of academic stars (or should we say ‘Old’) that are making their own mark in the online learning sphere without charge.
- Lewin’s MIT Physics 8.01 videos: Classical Mechanics
- Lewin’s MIT Physics 8.02 videos: Electricity and Magnetism
- Lewin’s MIT Physics 8.03 videos: Vibrations and Waves
- If you are looking for a few of his video lectures to kick-start your inspiring learning journey, perhaps these four (4) videos will be a good start:
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Seven Sensibilities of Learning in a Virtual World (Dr. Tony O’Driscoll)
- If you are interested in using Second Life, or other Virtual World technologies for learning purposes, Dr. Tony O’Driscoll’s 10-minute presentation will give you an excellent crash course.
- Link to video
- Reference – Why Second Life is important to learning (Bryan Chapman)
- TV Lesson & SuTree
- TV Lesson presents one of the world’s largest, most all-encompassing libraries of how-to content online. Lesson content covers every conceivable topic and delivers the definitive online “encyclopedia of lessons” (Source). They also invite anyone to join and share their own wisdom and know-how by uploading videos.
- SuTree (Sutra + Tree) is a knowledge community and an aggregator of instructional & educational videos. “It is a social bookmarking site that aims to be the “Digg” of e-learning. The site lets users bookmark and organize free video tutorials, video lessons, video how to and DIY from all over the web.
- Creative Commons Licenses
- The Creative Commons (CC) licenses enable copyright holders to grant some or all of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information.
- Link to video
- Creative Commons
- Robin Good Article – What Is Creative Commons Licensing?
- Information R/evolution (Michael Wesch)
- There is no shelf. Links alone are more than enough. Together we create more information than the Experts. We no longer just find information… Together, we can make it find us
- Free Learning Tutorial Sites
- Learning 2.0 ProgrammeThis blog has been set-up as part of PLCMC’s Learning 2.0 project to encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.
- An Introduction to Social Learning(Jane Hart)Provides you with a practical approach to getting started with using social media for both formal and informal learning – either in the form of best-of-breed stand-alone tools or in an integrated suite of social media tools.
- ELearning T4T (WikiEducator)eLearning Training for Teachers is a project node for the collaborative development of “just-in-time” tutorials to help educators implement eLearning successfully.
- WebTools4u2useThe purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them. Hundreds of free and inexpensive web tools are available for school library media specialists to use that can make us more productive, valued, and, perhaps, more competitive.
- Paul’s E-Learning ResourcesThis E-learning resources website is developed and maintained by Paul Andrews (Learning Technologist). On this site you will find his favourite links to free on-line services that allow you to provide your students with enhanced learning opportunities which you can then embed into, or link from, your school/college/university’s website, course blog or VLE/MLE.
- iLearn technology (Kelly Tenkely)Is an edublog dedicated to giving teachers practical tips for integrating technology into the classroom.
- Resource Kit for Creative Communities (e-Learning)In this resource kit, community organisations can find helpful online guidance, ideas and tools for developing and facilitating e-learning in communities and regions. The kit includes suggestions and options on the why and how of e-learning. You’ll find guidance on low cost tools and technologies, as well as ideas and stories to help you get started.
- Teacher Training Videos (Russell Stannard)These videos were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology. These videos are for any teachers or lecturers, indeed for anyone interested in learning how to use the technologies.
- WonderHowToHand-selects and curates the best instructional videos from over 1,700 websites. It is your one-stop shop to browse, search, or network your way through the world of free video tutorials.
- EduTubeIs a educational video search platform with an main aim to organize the best educational video content on the Internet. All content on EduTube is moderated and only relevant, educational content is permitted.
- Multimedia Training VideosA series of free learning videos (by Russell Stannard and Savraj Matharu) that explore Flash, Director and Photoshop.
- ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit 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.
- Teachers TVis a digital channel for everyone who works in schools. Their programmes cover every subject in the curriculum, all key stages and every professional role – from teaching assistant to headteacher. You can watch us on digital cable and satellite and programmes are also available anytime, on-demand and for free on this website.
- TeacherTubeIts main goal is to provides an online community for sharing instructional videos. Here you will find more than 54,000 videos covering all sorts of subjects.
- ALISONFree Interactive Workplace Skills Courseware including Touch Typing Skills, European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), British Computer Society (BCS) Unit E, Financial Literacy and e-Citizen
- The Moodle AcademyIs designed to be a drop in centre for you to reinforce your Moodle skills. While we are thinking Moodle, we might want to check out Using Moodle 2nd Edition, which is the second edtion of the O’Reilly book “Using Moodle” by Jason Cole and Helen Foster.
- Moodle TutorialsOps, can’t get Moodle out of my head! Check out this collection of 2 Minute Moodles – an attempt to simplify and show how to use a range of Moodle features. The tutorials try not to assume too much previous knowledge and are presented for the pragmatical and not necessarily tech-savy users (Moodle purists please excuse).
- Drupal in Education Open book (hosted by e-Learning Institute)An open resource started by Bryan Ollendyke at the e-Learning Institute to talk about Drupal’s place in education. Has a great CMS matrix comparing different CMS technologies that can all be used for education / e-learning. It is a living resource and has contributions from several PSU Drupal’ers though it’s open to contribution from any / everyone. Good if you are interested in getting into Drupal for Education.
- Google Apps TrainingThe Google Apps interactive tutorial provides clear audio and text directions and practice exercises for using six Google products; email, calendar, talk, docs, sites, and start page.
- Go-2-SchoolA great resource for learning Google SketchUp and Google Earth.
- W3SchoolsHere you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
- EdumaxEdumax is an online learning website that provides free lessons on topics from personal development to computer programming.
- TechTutorialsA directory containing thousands of free tutorials for IT professionals, hobbyists, and home users.
- 14 hours of Free E-Learning Strategy TutorialsBryan Chapman, Chief Learning Strategist at Chapman Alliance does regular webinars on e-learning strategies. He posts these for free use from his website. They are a little bit hidden. You have to scroll down the page to find them. NOTE: Because many of the webinars are vendor sponsored, you may have to add your information before watching them, but they are absolutely free.
- Contributors
- Clayton Wright
- Mitch Weisburgh
- Bryan Chapman
- Zaid Ali Alsagoff
- The Khan Academy
- Salman Khan founded the Khan Academy with the hope of using technology to foster new learning models. The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. They currently have 700+ videos (growing fast!) on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan.
- Salman Khan Uses Microsoft Paint to Inspire Learning
- Microsoft Paint is his blackboard, which he uses to draw and illustrate step-by-step what he is explaining.
- He records the narrated lessons using a screen recording software .
- When recorded (and edited), he uploads his recordings to YouTube.
- Then he links his recordings or lessons to The Khan Academy website, which indexes the hundreds of videos as he likes.
- The Khan Academy
- Khan Academy YouTube Channel
- FlowgramA new communications platform that lets anyone package and share anything on the internet. A flowgram combines the advantages of slide presentations and screencasts with an interactive user experience that fully exploits the fact that almost all the information we might ever need is already on the web. Using the zero download Flowgram Maker, creators can assemble and annotate web pages, photographs, videos etc on any topic, and add a voice narrative which provides context, emotion and consistency.
- FreeScreencastRECORD your screen, UPLOAD, and SHARE online with ease!
- JingSnap a picture of anything on your desktop. Record a video of what you do, or what you see, Instantly uploaded. Share in email, IM, or blogs.
- Webinaria
Create and share software demos online with their screen recording/ screencast software.- ScreenToasterIs a free online screen recorder, enabling you to record your screen activity, publish the video on the Internet, and stream the recorded video in Flash.
- WebKutIs an AIR application that allows you to capture web pages, or parts of them in a very simple way. It provides you 3 capture options: the entire page, the current view, or only a selection.
- CamStudioEnables you to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) .
- WinkA Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc).
- Screencast-O-MaticIs a Java-based application that anyone can use to create screencasts of their screen with no additional software to download. Without even registering to the site, you can record anything that happens on your screen just by setting the capture size, choose if you want audio included, and click go. When done, you can publish the screencast online or download it in .mov format. Free to use.uTIPu
- Record and share your screen in a video. You get unlimited public video sharing, 250MB private video sharing, and you can upload directly from TipCam.Capture Fox – Firefox Add-on
- You can capture your screen and record your voice to make screencasts (tutorials, e-lessons, etc.).
- oRipa Screen RecorderIs a handy tool to record your Windows desktop activities in real time and save it as a video file. oRipa Screen Recorder also captures anything you can hear on your PC, such as, music and talking through the PC’s microphone.
- ISU (I Show You)Is a free software for Windows platforms that enables you to easily record a sequence of operations in real-time as you perform them on your screen. After the screencasting session ends, you can edit your recording by drawing on it, adding notes, or recording a voice over narration. When done, you can send it to your friends via email, messenger or any other application.Debut
- Is a free screen capturing software for Windows that anyone can use to capture video or still images from any device. The setup comes in just 400kb and, after you install it, you can capture any part of your screen, or even capture videos from a webcam. You can export the video in any format and save the screenshots in JPG format. Debut is completely free to download and use.AviScreen
- Is an application for capturing screen activity (ScreenCast) in the form of AVI video or images. Beside the usual options defining the capture area, AviScreen has a unique feature called “follow the cursor”. Using this mode you can produce a video or image of relatively small dimensions while covering all mouse activity over the whole screen area.
- Learning Technologies
- Articles Archive
- you will have access to over 250 FREE articles discussing learning and technologies
- Some interesting articles:
Learning in Three Dimensions – Clive Shepherd examines the role and accessibility of 3D virtual worlds in today’s e-learning.
Collaboration 2.0 – It’s Not About The Technology – Jay Cross argues that online collaboration is not just about the technology.
A Guide to Free e-Learning Tools – Jane Hart talks to us about the pros and cons of using freely available tools, and suggests ten that can be used to create e-learning solutions quickly and easily.
Ten of the Best…Frequently Asked e-Learning Questions – Alan Bellinger argues that it’s the quality that’s important.
Key Lessons From the e-Learning Awards – Howard Hills looks at lessons that we can learn from the 2007 e-Learning Awards submissions.
The Changing Face of e-Learning – Vaughan Waller looks at the evolving e-learning landscape.
Rethinking Evaluation: Its Value and Its Limits for Learning – David Wilson challenges some of the basic assumptions in L&D about how, when and why it evaluates learning.
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