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1,500 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
Download 1,300 free courses from Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and other great universities to your computer or mobile device. Over 45,000 hours of free audio & video lectures.
Appropedia
Geothermal power is generated from the high temperatures that can be found in various parts of the earth’s crust such as volcanoes, hot springs, and geysers. The water that surrounds and fills the gaps between the rocks in the crust is raised in temperature by these natural processes. This hot water…
BCcampus OpenEd Resources
Search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats; the first step in adopting open educational resources. Search by subject and download them to your computer.
Center for Open Education
We believe that the future of education is open. We support initiatives that advance that vision coupled with tangible results that build access to resources, research, and communities committed to open education.
Czech CC0 dictionaries (Slovak)
CC0 is a license that allows the dictionaries to be used freely, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Digital Pitt
A full-text collection of over one hundred textbooks published in the 1800s; includes two surveys of historic schoolbooks by Dr. John A. Nietz, the founder of the Nietz Old Textbook Collection.
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access Books is a joint service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université
DocsTeach
DocsTeach is a product of the National Archives education division. Our mission is to engage, educate, and inspire all learners to discover and explore the records of the American people preserved by the National Archives.
edX
Gain new skills, advance your career, or learn something just for fun. EdX is a nonprofit offering 1900+ courses from the world’s best institutions including Harvard, MIT, Microsoft, and more. Learn computer or data science, business, engineering, finance, history, language and more. Take advantage …
Environmental Education Station
Ozone Depletion over Antarctica (NASA) - Teaching Materials, hot topics, and photo library.
Floss Manuals - Free Manuals for Free Software
A book community creating books of Free Culture and Free Software.
Hewlett Foundation Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.
Khan Academy | Free Online Courses, Lessons & Practice
You can learn anything. Expert-created content and resources for every course and level. Always free.
Lit2Go ETC
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and pr…
MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
Unlocking knowledge, empowering minds. Free course notes, videos, instructor insights and more from MIT.
OER Commons
OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.
Open Course Library
(CC BY 3.0) A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.
Open SUNY Textbooks
(CC BY 4.0) - The mission of Open SUNY Textbooks is to provide an academic-friendly publishing model and infrastructure which supports faculty adoption, remixing, and creation of open educational resources (OER) and courses.
OpenAlex documentation
The OpenAlex dataset describes scholarly entities and how those entities are connected to each other. OpenAlex data is made available under the CC0 license. That means it's in the public domain, and free to use in any way you like. We appreciate attribution where it's convenient, but it's not at all necessary.
Open Learning Initiative - OLI
Students Create an account and start your course. News and Events The Simon Initiative Harnessing a learning-engineering ecosystem
Open Textbook Library
Make a difference in your students’ lives with free, openly-licensed textbooks. Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess the…
Open Yale Courses
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
Photos For Class - The quick and safe way to find and cite images for class!
The World’s easist way to search for safe, creative commons images and cite them.
Saylor Academy Open Textbooks | Saylor Academy
Saylor Academy Open Textbooks We’re about so much more than just these textbooks. Students: We have almost 100 free, full-length certificate courses ready for you to take right now. Many of our courses can connect to zero-tuition college credit through our dozens of partner colleges and universities…
TextbookRevolution
Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors. We want to get these materials into classrooms. On this site you’ll find links and reviews of textbooks and select educational resources. Some of the books are PDF file…
OpenLearn from The Open University
Free online learning from The Open University. OpenLearn gives you free access to course materials and expert opinion on topical issues.
UMass Boston Open CourseWare
eduCommons provides access to educational materials more commonly known as OpenCourseWare.
WikiEducator
WikiEducator is a community project working collaboratively with the Free Culture Movement towards incremental development of open educational resources.