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Connectivism. Open Education. Open Education Sites Offer Free Content for All. Culture Digital Tools Flickr:FontFont Open education sites exemplify how technology is democratizing education. These sites allow both learners and teachers to create their own curriculum, whether it’s used in or out of the classroom. Here’s a comprehensive list of open education sites MindShift has covered. As always, we love to hear about sites that aren’t included in the list, so add them to the comments! MIT Open CourseWare: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology publishes nearly all of its course content on this site, from videos to lecture notes to exams, all free of charge and open to the public. Explore: open content, open education resources, Open Source. Open Thoughts | Musings on open source development and applications, with a focus on learning technologies. Open source curriculum. An open-source curriculum (OSC) is an online instructional resource that can be freely used, distributed and modified.

OSC is based on the open-source practice of creating products or software that opens up access to source materials or codes. Applied to education, this process invites feedback and participation from developers, educators, government officials, students and parents and empowers them to exchange ideas, improve best practices and create world-class curricula.

These “development” communities can form ad-hoc, within the same subject area or around a common student need, and allow for a variety of editing and workflow structures. Examples[edit] The Open Content Curriculum Project was initiated with MediaWiki software in 2005, and offers a standards-based K-12 curriculum that is collaboratively edited, contains teacher- and student-created resources, assessment rubrics, lesson plans, and instructional resources. Resources[edit] References[edit] OER Matrix - 82 Courses. OER Commons. Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare. 50 Top Sources Of Free eLearning Courses. Whether you are looking for a master’s degree program, computer science classes, a K-12 curriculum, or GED study program, this list gives you a look at 50 websites that promise education for free.

From databases that organize over 1,000,000 students throughout 16 universities, to a small library of documents for those interested in history, the opportunities for free online learning continue to expand as the Internet becomes a crucial component in education. 1. UMass Boston Open Courseware The UMass courseware offers a broad range of classes in areas like psychology, biology, early education, political science, history, mathematics, and others. Each department has a separate page listing the classes available. There are no slides, videos, or lecture notes, which makes this open courseware inferior to other universities that offer extensive resources. 2.

This website has a variety of video lessons for free. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Stanford on iTunes U gives you two options. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Browse: Material Type: Textbooks. Curriki. Elgg - Open Source Social Networking Engine. International Initiatives Fuel Growth of Open Ed. Content. Open Course Library.