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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

  • Creative Commons - helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the wold. Creative commons develops, supports, and stewards legand and technical infrastructure that maimizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
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  • iTunes U - Your lessons, your materials all together on iPad. Teachers can create and manage courses and students can experience it all from the iTunes U app.
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  • Khan Academy - A nonprofit with the misson of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
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  • Merlot II - a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
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  • MIT OpenCourseWare- A web-based publication of virtally all MIT course content. This conetent is open and avaiable to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
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  • OER Commons - Worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials made freely available online.
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  • Project Gutenberg - a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. Most items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books.