Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues.

Here you will find world class University of California college prep courses freely available for students and educators to use as supplemental or complementary material.

  The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. This is the LearningSpace, where you'll find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free learning tools to work with others.

This useful tool can be used to search for open courses from around the world.

Open & Free Courses are for independent learners and include self-guiding materials and activities that are freely available for you to use! Plus, they are available all the time so you can learn at your own pace.

Here you will find FREE TO USE learning resources that you can use to supplement your own course materials or learning. Some of these are from BC-based projects while others are from Open Educational Resource projects from around the world.

Free to use teaching and learning content from around the world. OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know.

A free, public website for high school and college students that offers National Repsoitory of Online Courses and content. The NROC courses utilize various combinations of video, animation, still graphics, simulations, text and audio to provide a resource beyond the development capacity of most educational institutions and organizations. The courses also focus on student activities, interaction and collaboration that take advantage of online communication tools.

Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:

• authors create and collaborate
• instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
• learners find and explore content

When educators pool their expertise to create a culture of shared knowledge, everyone benefits.  Use of open textbooks can lower educational costs for students.  Become involved with the open educational resources (OER) movement so that doors to higher education stay open to all.

The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, the League for Innovation in the Community College and many other community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and especially open textbooks in community college courses.   For more details, see the It Takes a Consortium to Support Open Textbooks article in the January/February 2009 issue of Educause Review magazine.