General OER web sites

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

• This list is still under development. Every part of it may change before the official launch, including its title, URL, and method of organization.

• This is a list of open educational resources (OERs).

A

• Apple Learning Interchange, Apple Computer, US. Education Level: Primary, Middle, Secondary. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• ARIADNE - European Knowledge Pool System, Foundation ARIADNE - European Commission's telematics for education and training program, UE. Education Level: College, Graduate. Material Subject: General. Language: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

B

• Blue Web’n, SBC Knowledge Network Explorer, US. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

C

• Canada’s SchoolNet, Canada, CA. Education Level: Primary, Middle, Secondary. Material Subject: General. Language: English, French. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• Canal Savoir - Corporation pour l'avancement de nouvelles applications des langages, Private consortium of institutions of Quebec, CA. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. Language: French. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• CAREO - Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects, Alberta Learning, University of Calgary, eduSource, CA. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. Language: English, French, Spanish. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• Colombia Aprende, Ministry of Education, CO. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. Language: Spanish. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• Connexions, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Rice University, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, US. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. Language: 21 languages. License: Creative Commons. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• CSTC - Computer Science Teaching Center, NSF, Association for Computing Machinery Education Board, US. Education Level: College, Graduate. Material Subject: Computer Science. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

D

• Development Gateway Foundation, Development Gateway, US. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. Language: Arabian, English, French, Japanese, Spanish. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• Digital Collections and Programs - Library of Congress, The Library of Congress, US. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

E

• EducaNext (Universal Brokerage Platform), PROLEARN, UE. Education Level: College, Graduate. Material Subject: General. Language: English, French, German. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

F

• Fathom Knowledge Network Inc., Columbia University, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, US. Education Level: College, Graduate. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

G

• Floss4Edu, Commonwealth of Learning (COL), KE. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. Language: French. License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

G

• GELC - Global Education and Learning Community, Java.net, Sun Microsystems, O'reilly, Collabnet, US. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

I

• Internet Archive, Alexa Internet and others, US. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009
• IssueLab and Hewlett Foundation OER Repository, International. Research produced by Hewlett Foundation grantees and other organizations on the concept of Open Educational Resources. Licenses: Vary. Added to the OAD October 19, 2009.

J

• JOCW - Japan Opencourseware Consortium, Keio University, JP. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. Language: Japanese, English. License: Creative Commons. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

K

• KYOTO University OpenCourseWare, Kyoto University's, JP. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. Language: Japanese, English. License: Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

L

• LALO - Learning About Learning Objects, Open Source, US. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• Learn-Alberta, Alberta Government, CA. Education Level: Primary, Middle, Secondary. Material Subject: General. Language: English, French, German, Spanish. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• LearningLanguages.net, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US. Education Level: Primary, Secondary. Material Subject: Languages. Language: English, Spanish, French, Japanese. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• LoLa Exchange: Learning Objects, Learning Activities, Wesleyan University, US. Education Level: College, Graduate. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

M

• MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-Line Teaching, California State University Center for Distributed Learning, US. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• MLX - Maricopa Learning Exchange, Maricopa Community Colleges, US. Education Level: College. Material Subject: General. License: Creative Commons. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

O

• OCW Finder, Utah State University. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. Language: English, Galician, Spanish. License: Creative Commons. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• OCWC - OpenCourseWare Consortium, OpenCourseWare Consortium, US. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. Language: English, Catalan, Chinese, Galician, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai. License: Creative Commons. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• Online Resources for Problem Based Learning, Queensland University, AU. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

R

• Rived, Ministry of the Education of Brazil, BR. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. Language: Portuguese. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

S

• Sakai Foundation, Sakai community, US. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. Language: English, Spanish. License: Creative Commons Attribution2.5 License. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

T

• Teachers’ Domain, WGBH, New England's PBS station, and much of our content is produced by WGBH; however, we also partner with other organizations including NSDL, NSF, NASA, KQED Science Media Collection and Keystone eMedia Collection to name a few, US. Education Level: Primary, Secondary. Material Subject: Science content (Earth and Space, Life and Physical Science and Engineering), special collections, English and History content areas (i.e. our series on Civil Rights and Between the Lions Early Education and Poetry Everywhere). License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• The Belle Project - Broadband Enabled Lifelong Learning Environment, The CANARIE Learning Program, US. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• The Gateway to 21st Century Skills, Ministry of Education, US. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• The Gutenberg Project, Volunteering, US. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• The Learning Federation, Australian Education Systems Officials Committee (AESOC), AU. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• The Orange Grove Digital Repository, Florida Distance Learning Consortium, US. Education Level: Primary, Secondary. Material Subject: General. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike3.0. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• Thot Cursus, Thot Cursus inc., CA. Education Level: Graduate, Professional. Material Subject: General. Language: French, English. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• Tufts OpenCourseWare, Tufts University, US. Education Level: Graduate. License: Creative Commons. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

U

• UniversitySurf, Association University Surf Europe, FR. Education Level: All levels. Material Subject: General. Language: French, Chinese, Dutch, English, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Vietnamese. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• UNU - United Nations University OpenCourseWare, United Nations University, US. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. License: Creative Commons. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

V

• VCLIT - Learning Objects Repository, University of Mauritius, MU. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. Language: English, French. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

W

• Webcast:courses of the University of California, University of California, US. Education Level: Graduate. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009

• WORC - Wisconsin Online Resource Center, Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS), US. Education Level: College. Material Subject: General. License: Rights reserved. Added to the OAD, May 6, 2009