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Open Courseware (OCW)

The links here (see OCW menu) are aimed at self-learners across the globe who wish to benefit from the open and free educational resources now widely available. The lists are wide-ranging rather than comprehensive but lead to more specialized lists and subject-specific details.

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See also:
The Open Education Directory for a wide range of OCW

Listings and Search Engines

• Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER)(US) - portal of free educational resources and services specifically for Community and Technical Colleges; free for anyone to use
• OpenStax - View and share free educational material in small modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports or other academic assignments
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - hundreds of free educational resources spanning a wide variety of academic subjects and grade levels.
• iLumina digital library (US), Digital Library of Sharable Undergraduate Teaching Materials - educational resources ranging from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses
• 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
• Japan Opencourseware Consortium (JOCW)(JP) - official site
• The Learning Exchange - online digital library; To improve ways in which knowledge, understanding and evidence is used by social care practitioners and managers
• Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India (IN), National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) - provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams
• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) (US) - free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community
• OER Commons (US) - support and knowledge base around the use and reuse of open educational resources (OER)
• Open Education Consortium - search engine on OER (Open Educational Resources)
• Open Education Database - online education directory for both free and for-credit learning options
• Russell Educational Consultancy and Productions (UK), Podcasts for Educators Schools and Colleges - podcasts from over 250 carefully selected podcast channels for educational use
• Semantic Course Search (Serendipity) - allows users explore in an integrated and incremental manner

See Also: OCW Sources , Organized Access and FAQ