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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
OCW is a
Web-based
electronic publishing project that provides free, searchable, access to course materials from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology for educators and students around the world.
MIT is offering a certificate program that is free and you can learn programming. You
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Stanford opens their classes to the world.
OER Commons (Open Educational Resources) Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues' course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today's classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.
OpenLearn - free and open educational resourcesOpenLearn is a an open content initiative by the Open University. The OpenLearn website makes educational resources freely available on the Internet, with state of the art learning support and collaboration tools to connect learners and educators.
Worldcat® library search
WorldCat is the world's
largest network of library content and services. WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries
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Formal Digital Libraries (FDL) Project
A
group of researchers at Cornell University, California Institute of Technology, and University of Wyoming
are
creating a digital library of algorithms and constructive mathematics that are usable for program and
software
construction.
Texas Collaborative for Teaching
Excellence
The Collaborative enables and supports quality teaching at all community and
technical
colleges in Texas. It promotes a collegial, cooperative approach to professional development statewide and
provides an infrastructure to enable college faculty to share resources and avoid duplication.
NODAL: A system for ubiquitous
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NODAL is a general, document-oriented distributed database with a data model that allows addressing,
searching, and linking of content of any kind from any document. It is built on a distributed client-server
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Knowledge Media Laboratory of the Carnegie Foundation.
ClaiMaker
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Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.)
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The Probability Web
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The Assayer
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Center for History of Physics
A Web site
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faculty and students of higher education. MERLOT is a collection of links to online learning materials along
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