From P2P Foundation

List compiled by ZaidtLearn, links available via [1]

URL = http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html

Below are just the two first sections of what is a much bigger directory containing OCW links by university and by country.

Directory

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• Einztein

Find free online courses. Connect your favorite courses to relevant learning resources. Exchange knowledge and information with other members whose academic interests match yours. Join peers and professors in exploring the newest academic frontier: free online courses.

• Virtual Professors

Delivers interesting Free College Online Courses to you each day. They are handpicked from some of the most interesting free online college courses from the best universities and seminars held from around the world. In addition, you’ll find a handy directory to universities which have free college online courses.

• Academic Earth

An educational video website with the goal of enhancing the usability and expanding the awareness of OER, focusing first on video lectures.

• YouTube EDU

YouTube has aggregated all of the videos from its college and university partners - including luminaries like Stanford, Harvard, and Dartmouth - in one place.

• OCW/OER Search

This Google customed search engine enables you to search the sites that are linked from this post (with a few filters, too). Click here to view Tony Hirst's (Credit to him for the super idea!) OER/OCW search version, which also searches sites linked on this post. Click here to view Scott Leslie's upgraded version, which brings it to a Do-It-Together level by using a Wiki enabling anyone to add OER/OCW links (URLs).

• OpenCourseWare Finder

The OCW Finder currently shows results from several collections, including MIT OCW , Utah State University, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW, Tufts University OCW, Foothill De-Anza SOFIA, and Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative.

• OER Recommender

Makes it easy for open education resource providers to provide links to related resources. A good starting point to search and find relevant OER resources.

• Folksemantic

Browse and search over 110,000 Open Education Resources (OERs). "This is an open educational resource recommender. There's also a website widget and a Firefox extension. The system basically provides access to NSDL resources, but also Johns Hopkins, MERLOT and MIT-OCW resources. OER Recommender now has real-time analysis of OER resources related to other web pages (eg. Amazon). It's all free and open source, and the code is available" - Stephen Downes

• OER Commons

A global teaching and learning network of free-to-use resources – from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware – for you to use, tag, rate, and review.

• Open Courseware Directory

You will find 7 groups of subject-specific open courseware, including specialized resources for each subject. It is an annotated listing of publicly available courseware (lecture notes, handouts, slides, tutorial material, exam questions, quizzes, videos, demonstrations, etc) from the world's universities, colleges and other educational institutions

• OpenCourseWare Consortium

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.

• Free Online Courses

It includes thousands of links to courses in subjects ranging from architecture to chemistry to women’s studies and these courses are prepared by top institutions such as MIT, Yale University and University of California.

• Khan Academy

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Currently, you can find 2000+ short video tutorials on (mostly maths, but also history, finance, etc.), online exercises and visual tracking and progress reports to support your learning.

• Udacity

Udacity was founded by three roboticists who believed much of the educational value of their university classes could be offered online. A few weeks later, over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled in our first class, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence."

Open CourseWare Collections

• Lecturefox - Free University Lectures (Andreas and Ellen Petersen)

• Free Online Courses from Great Universities (Open Culture)

• Intelligent YouTube Video Collections (Open Culture)

• 30+ List of Computer Science Video Lectures (Over 200 Videos)

• 200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything (Jessica Hupp)

• More than 100 Free Places to Learn Online - and Counting (Jeff Cobb)

• OER - Open Educational Resources (Jeff Cobb)

• 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Developers (Laura Milligan)

• 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges in the World (Heather Johnson)

• 60+ Killer Open Courseware Collections for Web Designers (Jessica Hupp)

• Top 100 Open Courseware Projects (OEDb)

• The 100 Best Open Education Resources on the Web

• 250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives (OEDb)

• 100+ Sources for Free Books & Texts Online (Alisa Miller)

• The Stingy Scholar's OCW Collection

• Online Neuroscience Lectures