OER (Open Education Resources): OER: Open Educational Resources

free online classes and online learning tools

a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for Community and Technical Colleges. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation.

mission is expanding access to education by promoting awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). Over 200 colleges have joined the consortium and many more participate in our activities and use the resources posted here.

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free and open college textbooks, mostly in business.

K-12 school districts, universities, and colleges in 26 countries can enroll in iTunes U to distribute courses and collections of education content that anyone can access.

a not-for-profit whose mission is to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Materials cover subjects ranging from math and finance to history and art. They also translate materials into the world's most spoken languages.

designed to support the full lifecycle of a learning space design project, from defining the goals and needs to designing the space to supporting it. Watch this video for an overview.

free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

Resources for Michigan Community College Librarians providing information, training, and support for faculty adoption of open educational resources.

"a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity."

open textbooks source - "reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council... topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy." Over 175 National Academies Press ebooks are available in the LLC's RaiderSearch catalog.

Accessible educational materials, or AEM, are print- and technology-based educational materials, including printed and electronic textbooks and related core materials that are designed or converted in a way that makes them usable across the widest range of student variability regardless of format (print, digital, graphical, audio, video).

"a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing."

from the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges, a collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – in 81 high-enrollment college courses.

"brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community" includes MOOCs and certificate courses

"a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute"

dedicated to providing easy pathways for faculty to learn, find, use and apply OER - take a look at their self-paced instruction for faculty learning about OER

free and open collection of college level courses. There are no registrations or fees required, and you earn a non-accredited certificate upon completion of each course.

"showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities ... curated by librarians and their institutions and hosted by bepress, the Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more."

student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors.

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Leading proponents and critics articulate and debate the rapid rise of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) as an educational and open access innovation

" Paul Kim brings together experts from higher education, business, law, learning analytics and other relevant areas to provide an evenhanded, research-based positioning of MOOCs within the existing educational technology landscape and a base for understanding whether they could reshape the future of education."

"required reading for anyone trying to sort out the competing claims, aspirations, and accusations that color the MOOC debate."