Open Source & OER

Courses from NYU, Berkeley, Columbia. Harvard, Michigan, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA and Yale.

Lectures by well known and sometimes quirky people. Topic index makes it fairly easy to see if there is anything of interest.

A free, searchable online collection of every C-SPAN program aired since 1987.

An aggregator of educational films and courses. Many posted on YouTube.

A list of 25 sites

This beta site includes Frontline, Bill Moyers Journal, POV and Newshour.

Vintage documentaries and some new academic lectures.

Technology, Entertainment, Design provides "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world." Inspiring lectures, many by famous speakers.

An open-access educational repository of high-quality, mainly scientific video lectures. Target audience is graduate students, researchers and scholars, and increasingly the general public, along with high school and undergraduate students.

Open source music to use in your videos, podcasts, and various projects.

"The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer" by adding tags.

Creative Commons is united with Open Education Resources to promote development and posting of free and open web content.

The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.

Math in Society is a free, open textbook. This book is a survey of contemporary mathematical topics, most non-algebraic, appropriate for a college-level quantitative literacy topics course for liberal arts majors.

Lots of interactive science resources

Courses seem very well designed. Information on remixing and ideas and tools for enhancing online classwork.

PLOS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

Solutions is a hybrid peer-reviewed journal and popular magazine (think Nature meets the New Yorker). It is on the web, on newsstands, and in libraries.

Pictures that are free to use.