This page gives general information about educational resources that are freely available online or can otherwise be located easily, as well as information about some aspects of “Open Educational Resources” and pages where more information about these can be obtained.
OpenCourseWare
These are full university-level courses available for free online. Most of them use a Creative Commons license. Creative Commons license permit certain forms of reuse without the need to seek permission. Specific links:
Online collaborative book creation
No grand successes in this yet, but here are some efforts under way:
Connexions, run by people at Rice University. Anybody can contribute a “module”, which could be the equivalent of a book chapter or lecture notes.
Wikibooks, a sister project to Wikipedia.
Places with lots of free videos
Here are some:
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Khan Academy, with over 1000 videos by Salman Khan on mathematics, physics, chemistry, and the financial crisis.
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WatchKnow, a compendium of free educational videos.
