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"The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: planning of education projects linked with the development of free content development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs networking on funding proposals developed as free content "

Great ScoopIt dealing with Massive Open Online courses

Content aggregation into text ebooks. faculty tool.

"eLearning Papers adds a new dimension to the exchange of information on open education, OER and ICT in education in Europe and stimulates research"

Quite a few things listed in this post. "Open Educational Resources are learning tools like textbooks, lesson plans, and other media that are in the public domain or openly licensed, meaning that use you can freely use and adapt them. Unlike online resources that are free but not openly licensed, you can adapt OERs as much as you like to your own needs, which makes them an infinitely flexible tool. For example, you could take a geography textbook and add examples and landmarks from your own region. Or you could take a storybook and translate it, as a class, into another language. Or your art class could create new illustrations for an existing story."

Big NSW news! YouTube is finally available to DET NSW teachers- after years of frustration beating on doors. Access will of course allow teachers to plan, research, display and embed YT videos in their resources, within their working context . One giant step…for liberal access and OER

"This video attempts to bring awareness to some of the implications in sourcing materials online without considering the copyright on the material. If we can transform teachers practice so that they use Creative Commons materials exclusively, we can legally share much more of our teaching and learning content!"

"Explore this educator's guide to open educational resources for information about online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, sources for lesson plans and activities, and open alternatives to textbooks."