Open Textbook Resources
OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge. [from http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources]
- Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
http://oerconsortium.org - Community College Open Textbook Project
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org - Community College Open Textbook Project NING
http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com - 200+ Open Textbooks Listed by Subject
http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/ - MERLOT
http://www.merlot.org - The Orange Grove
http://www.theorangegrove.org/ - OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org - Global Text Project
http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/books - Flat World Knowledge
http://www.flatworldknowledge.com - Wikibooks
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page - Creative Commons license
http://creativecommons.org/license - Make Textbooks Affordable Campaign
http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/ - Quick Start to Open Textbook Adoption
http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/profiles/blogs/quick-start-to-open-textbook
Open Course Ware: http://www.ocwconsortium.org
An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. 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. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
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