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  • Annenberg Media, Learner.org (US) - helps teachers increase their expertise & assist them in improving their teaching methods, Many programs intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home: interactives, arts, foreign language, literature & language arts, maths, science, social studies & history

  • Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER)(US) - portal of free educational resources and services specifically for Community and Technical Colleges: Arts, Educational Technology, Foreign Languages, Health, Language Arts, Maths, Philosophy, Physical Education, Religion, Science, Social studies, Vocational Education

  • The Assayer, Book Reviews and Discussion for the Free Information Renaissance - catalog of free books, collects user-submitted reviews: add or review a book, browse by (subject, author, title, reviewer)

  • Connexions (US) - environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing and rapidly publishing scholarly content, educational materials for everyone organized in small modules easily connected into larger collections or courses, free to use and reuse: content (Arts, Business, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, Social Sciences)

  • Curriki - The Global Education & Learning Community - online environment supporting development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them: Arts, Career & Technical Education, Education, Educational Technology, Health, Information & Media Literacy, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, World Languages

  • dgCommunities, Open Educational Resources - knowledge resources focused on development issues, interactive space, participate in discussions, find people with similar interests, 40,000 members worldwide over half are in developing countries: online directory of development activities, forums, special reports, member benefits

  • EdgeVideo - long-form interview videos of prominent scientists and other cultural figures

  • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) (US) - More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources

  • Free Science Videos and Lectures (LV) - animals, astronomy, biology, chemistry, genetics, physics, technology, water life, weather

  • Free Technology Academy (FTA) - virtual campus with course modules followed entirely on-line, OERs can be studied freely but enrolled learners guided by professional teaching staff from participating universities, full master programme can be concluded at one of the universities

  • iLumina digital library, Digital Library of Sharable Undergraduate Teaching Materials - educational resources ranging from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses, cataloged in MARC and NSDL metadata formats, captures both technical and education-specific information about each resource, contains thousands of educational resources and several virtual collections

  • Internet Archive (US), Open Educational Resources - library of Open Educational Resources and university lectures, hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the US and China, Many lectures available for download

  • Khan Academy (US) - not-for-profit organization with mission of providing high quality education to anyone, anywhere: 1000+ videos on YouTube, basic arithmetic and algebra, differential equations, physics, finance, free adaptive math program

  • LearnersTV.com - Video lectures, LiveOnline Tests, Audio lectures etc in the fields of Biology, Physics,Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine, Management and Accounting, Dentistry etc, free to visitors: Subjects, Videos, Animations, Study Notes, Online Test, Presentations, Support

  • Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India (IN), National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) - objective to enhance quality of engineering education by developing curriculum based video and web courses, carried out by seven IITs and IISc Bangalore as a collaborative project, supplementary content for 129 web courses in engineering/science and humanities developed, Each course contains materials that can be covered in depth in 40 or more lecture hours, 110 courses developed in video format

  • Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) (US) - user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed higher education online learning materials catalogued by registered members and faculty development support services, vision to be online community where faculty, staff, and students share their learning materials and pedagogy: Communities, Learning Materials, Faculty Development, Awards, Partner Support, Policies, Programs and Projects, Media Center

  • OER Commons - Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from around the World, expanding community of educators and life-long learners using and creating content in the open education movement: subject areas (Arts, Business, Humanities, Mathematics & Statistics, Science & Technology, Social Sciences), community, tutorials

  • Open Book Project (US) - encourages & coordinates collaboration among students & teachers for development of high quality, freely distributable textbooks & educational materials on wide range of topics: books, tutorials, courses, projects, Python bibliotheca, Java classpath, multimedia, contributors

  • Open Culture (US) - explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.), sifts through all the media and centralize it in one place: Audio & Podcasts, Video, Most Popular

  • Open-Of-Course, Free and Open Content Courses and Tutorials - multilingual portal for free online courses and tutorials, focus on educational information: Languages, Computer Applications, Operating Systems, Webdesign, Business, Other

  • OpenSeminar - web-based open courseware platform that enables instructors to collaborate on material for similar courses by sharing links to content, expert-maintained repository or database of links to online information openly available

  • Scitalks, Smart People on Cool Topics - science videos from universities & other institutions, YouTube and Google, upload your own videos: academic, broadcast, corporate, new, blog, upcoming conferences

  • The Stingy Scholar (blog) - How to learn for free on the web

  • Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) (US), Ideas Worth Spreading - makes the best talks and performances available (more than 450 videos): Themes, Speakers, Talks, Translations, Conferences, Events, Prize, Fellows, Community, Blog

  • Textbook Revolution (US) - student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors: Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Computer Science & technology, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering, Environment, ESL, Health Sciences & Medical, Mathematics, Physics, Society and Social Sciences, Sociology, World history

  • Videolectures.net (US) - free and open access, video lectures presented by distinguished scholars and scientists at important and prominent events: most popular, latest lectures, tutorials, interviews, categories (Architecture, Arts, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Computers, Economics, Education, Environment, Events, History, Law, Maths, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Recreation, Science, Society, Technology)

  • Visionlearning (US) - educational resource for faculty and students, provides science learning modules more effective than traditional textbooks in teaching science: biology, chemistry, earth science, general science, physics, process of science, scientific research, toxicology & pharmacology, trigonometry, interactive animations

  • Wolfram Research (US), Demonstrations Project - brings computational exploration to the widest possible audience, open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts, free player runs all demos: science, technology, mathematics, art, finance

  • WGBH Media Library and Archives, Open Vault - online access to unique and historically important content produced for individual and classroom learning: arts, business, education, humanities, Massachusetts, science and technology, social science

  • Wikieducator - free eLearning content - community project working collaboratively with the Free Culture Movement towards a free version of the education curriculum, developing free content for use in schools, polytechnics, universities, vocational education institutions and informal education settings: Content, Projects & Initiatives, Research, Networks