ICORE promotes, supports and enhances Open Research and Open Education worldwide. The main objectives of ICORE are the recognition, progress and application of Open Research and Open Education: ICORE wants to bridge both worlds of Open Research and Open Education. The goal is the mutual re-usage of their results and outcomes, e.g. through the usage of digital resources from Open Research in Open Education.
Portal maintained by the EU Central Library to promote and support open access to research. It includes many links to open access repositories and search engines and has RSS feeds from journals in various topic areas including economics and education (via separate link)
Free access to learning materials from higher education courses drawn from a wider community of Open Education Resources associated with the UK Open University. Materials can be edited and new versions published and shared.
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. The site contains both studies and policy documents and a wide range of open educational resources
US-based site providing resources and links for both prospective online students and educators. These include links to open access courses and educational resources, blog articles and useful link collections
Thanks to Lionel Dabbadie for this link - it illustrates very well the potential for the Internet to profoundly affect the standard models of education - something I refered to at the aqua-tnet conference in Vilamoura last week.
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