Stanford Engineering Everywhere: http://see.stanford.edu/

• Anytime and anywhere access to complete lecture videos via streaming or downloaded media.

• Full course materials including syllabi, handouts, homework, and exams.

• Online social networking with fellow SEE students.

• Support for PCs, Macs and mobile computing devices.

 

MITx:  http://mitx.mit.edu/

A portfolio of MIT courses offered for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences.

EDx:   http://www.edxonline.org/  A collboration between MIT and Harvard to bring open education resources to the web.

ITunesU:   http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

Academic Earth:   http://www.academicearth.org/

Coursera:   https://www.coursera.org/    a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.

YouTube.edu :  http://www.youtube.com/education

YouTube EDU brings learners and educators together in a global video classroom. On YouTube EDU, you have access to a broad set of educational videos that range from academic lectures to inspirational speeches and everything in between.

World Wide Lecture Hall:  http://wlh.webhost.utexas.edu/

 

Your entry point to free online course materials from around the world.

Wikiversity:      http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities.

OER Commons:   http://www.oercommons.org/     A place to find and share open educational resources

 

Connexions:  http://cnx.org/

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:

• authors create and collaborate
• instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
• learners find and explore content

 

Open Stax College:  http://openstaxcollege.org/

OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers.

Flat world knowledge:  http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

 

The  world’s largest publisher of free and open college textbooks.

Directory of Open Access Journals;   http://www.doaj.org/

 

The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.

 

Open Library http://openlibrary.org/  One web page for every book ever published. It’s a lofty but achievable goal.

John Hopkins Open Courseware Project:   http://ocw.jhsph.edu/    provides access to content of the School’s most popular courses
Public Broadcast:   http://www.pbs.org/teachers/

Internet Archive: http://archive.org/index.php  digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

Library of Congress:    http://www.loc.gov/teachers/?rid=353

 

Educational resources and materials

 

National Gallery of Art

National Repository of Online courses:  http://www.courserepository.org/  NROC course content is an Open Educational Resource (OER) and is available at no cost for individual use.

Merlot:  http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues.

Hippocampus:   http://www.hippocampus.org/

A project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

Khan Academy:    http://www.khanacademy.org/

With over 3,100 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we’re on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

PhET:  Interactive simulations University of Colorado

http://phet.colorado.edu/

National Science Foundation:  http://www.nsf.gov/news/classroom/

Educational Resources

Notre Dame   http://ocw.nd.edu/   icommitment to sharing freely with the worldwide community, has provided more than 40 distinctive, high quality courses to the OpenCourseWare collection.

Learning Space:   http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/    free online courses from The Open University.

Open Learning Inititiave at Carnegie Mellon:  https://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/

Kaplan:   http://ocw.kaplan.edu/  Open Courseware

United Nations University:  http://ocw.unu.edu/

New York University:   http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education.html

University Open Courseware:   http://ocw.capilanou.ca/

University of Tokyo http://ocw.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english

University of Massachussetts: Boston http://ocw.umb.edu/

Webcast University of California:  Berkley Video and Podcast site:  http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

Waseda University Open Courseware:   http://www.waseda.jp/ocw/index_e.html

Kyushu University Open Courseware:   http://ocw.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/index.html

Hokkaido University OpenCourseWare  http://ocw.hokudai.ac.jp/index.php?lang=en

Maine International Center for Digital Learning:  http://www.micdl.org/    MICDL is a non-profit organization that helps educators use digital technologies that promote individualized and community-connected student learning.

Udacity:  http://www.udacity.com/

free-ed. net   http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/

Class Central http://www.class-central.com/

A complete list of free online courses offered by Stanford’s Coursera, MIT and Harvard led edX (MITx + Harvardx), and Udacity

Lecture Fox:  Free university lectures  http://lecturefox.com/

Colorado College’s Podcast page:   http://coloradocollege.edu/podcast/

Open Courseware:   http://oerconsortium.org/open-courseware/     Community college consortium for open educational resources

Wheelock College:  http://wheelock.educommons.net/

Princeton University:   http://www.virtualprofessors.com/directory/university/princeton

Tufts open courseware:   http://ocw.tufts.edu/

IBerry:  http://iberry.com/  Academic Porthole iBerry provides information and resources for learners, educators, researchers and anyone else with an interest in adult education.

Duke law center for the public domain:   http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/lectures/

Open Course LIbrary:   https://sites.google.com/a/sbctc.edu/opencourselibrary/

Penn State’s Open Education for Earth and Mineral Science OER initiative:  http://open.ems.psu.edu/

Open Education:   http://www.openeducation.net/2011/02/10/in-breaking-down-walls-does-online-education-sacrifice-quality/  a site dedicated to tracking the changes occurring in education today