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ChinaSMACK | Hot internet stories, pictures, & videos in China. 60 in 60 ISTE 2011. Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures. Free Courses and Resources. 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare. The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university’s courses on the Web. With that gesture, MIT OpenCourseWare helped launch an important educational movement, one that MIT President Susan Hockfield described in her opening remarks at yesterday’s meeting as both the child of technology and of a far more ancient academic tradition: “the tradition of the global intellectual commons.”

We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. Free Academic Open Access Books.

LiveBinders - Organize your resources in an online binder. 10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research. Google Books is a Google service that makes discovering book content easier for us on the web. It started way back in 2004 and since then its mission has been to digitally scan and archive tons of book. Knowing the breakneck pace that Google sets, one day it could become the absolute knowledge tank as far as books go. The ongoing Partner Program and the Library Project are helping to rocket things along.

But Google Books does not allow you to download whole books unless it’s in the Public Domain. It also does not display the entire text of other books. What’s the point of using google books, you might say? Plenty, if you can “˜exploit’ the information that’s freely available. Build Your Own Personal Library for Lifelong Learning Building your own reference library (My Library) with Google Books is a good way to start off.

Looking at the contents of an index for a particular book, gives me some ideas for further reading. Your Very Own Magazine Stand Try the Advanced Book Search Find Copycats.