Open Courseware Directory and
Higher Education Resources

What we offer .....

• The Open Courseware Directory - annotated listings of publicly available courseware (lecture notes and videos, slides, tutorial material, exam questions, software, demonstrations) from the universities and colleges of the world.
  Open Courseware (OCW) is now widely available and free of charge to any user with web access anywhere in the world but do not expect a complete program of studies offering expert tuition, interaction with fellow students, assessment and finally the award of a qualification. You will probably have to decide for yourself how to benefit from OCW. The quality and scope of Open Courseware varies considerably so we are attempting to compile a directory of good quality OCW that will be of most use and relevance to self-learners and educators. Courseware items consisting of little more than a syllabus statement are not listed while those with good lecture notes are normally included, as are impressive podcasts, videoed lectures or image collections. Each listing in the OCW Directory comes with a brief description (normally taken from the link website) and users can refine their search results with respect to over 30 subject headings, media type (assignments, exams, software / demonstrations, audio, notes, video) and academic level (introductory, intermediate, advanced). Visitors including courseware authors and their institutions, are strongly encouraged to assist in keeping the listings up-to-date by taking advantage of the facilities for text input and attaching helpful comments to any item. This can be done very quickly and easily - you don't even have to register.

  The iBerry Open Courseware Finder below provides a quick search of the Open Courseware Directory - go to the square corresponding to the intersection of a main subject row with the required 'media type' column - Click on 'ALL' inside a square to find items at all academic levels; otherwise click on:

  1. for 'introductory' (university first year undergraduate level - or equivalent)
  2. for 'intermediate' (university undergraduate level but excluding first year - or equivalent)
  3. for 'advanced' (university graduate level - or equivalent)

  Example: To find OCW items containing exam material (sample exams, old papers etc) in introductory Social Sciences go to the bottom right hand corner and click on '1'. Clicking on one of the Main Subject Areas in the left column will give all OCW items for that subject area.

  The iBerry Open Courseware Finder

  Main Subject Area	Notes	Video	Audio	Images	Demos	Assign- ments	Exams
  Arts	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL
  Earth Sciences	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL
  Engineering & Technology	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL
  Health & Life Sciences	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL
  Maths & Computer Science	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL
  Physical Sciences	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL
  Social Sciences	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL	1 2 3 ALL

  A Subject Index is also available.

• Higher Education Resources - links to the best educational information and directory sites focusing on significant and up-to-date portals that provide specialized links to academic subject areas.
  Each academic subject area in the Open Course Directory is associated with resource listings covering prime websites, associations and academic journals. There are also many other resource pages on diverse topics with an academic flavor such as educational technology, distance education, women, research, jobs, academic fraud, graduate information and humor.

• News Aggregator - brings a wide variety of RSS feeds together in a convenient form covering higher education news, blogs, educational technology and open educational resources.
  If you are registered you can customize your RSS sidebar displays to display your preferred RSS feeds as blocks of headlines when you login.

• Academic Community - where learners are educators, students are professors - an experiment in the making! Help to liberate Higher Education from Universities and Colleges and share with the world. Meet learners / educators - learn in your own way but help others too by creating your own material.
  If you register you can communicate with other registered users (without revealing your private email address), create and edit Open Courseware Items, customize your displays and set your own local time. You can also help others make the best use of Open Courseware by creating and publishing your own material in a 'Subject Porthole'.

  iberry.com has negligible funding and no institutional support. Further development is therefore entirely in the hands of our users. Help us to become a viable part of a self-sustaining community of educators and learners that is independent of existing universities and colleges and free of commercial interests.

Enter iBerry
The Academic Porthole

"Everyone has the right to education."

Article 26: Universal Declaration
of Human Rights

10th December 1948