Lists cover a range of topics related to: institutions that support open access, university actions for open access or against high journal prices, what you can do to help the cause of open access, etc.

This video highlights ways in which educators (and parents) can incorporate 21st century skills in their lessons to digital natives. Admittedly, as a teacher, I get overwhelmed by all of the information out there and feel pressure to use technology that I'm still learning to be comfortable with. This is a good video that can show you how to get started, geared more towards middle/upper school.

CK-12 Foundation provides a library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real world applications for over 5000 concepts from arithmetic to history

This site is devoted to teaching educators how to use screencasting and the flipped classroom. -> I thought this would be interesting to anyone wanting to use videos as part of their lesson plans.

Written in 2010, this 5 page paper explains how Europe (UK and Germany specifically) has embraced open access and made it a priority to further its knowledge economy. This references the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2002, and goes on to describe policies post 2006.

All German universities will be free of charge when term starts next week after fees were abandoned in Lower Saxony, the last of seven states to charge. "Tuition fees are socially unjust," said Dorothee Stapelfeldt, senator for science in Hamburg, which scrapped charges in 2012.

Could this also be 'open access'?

This is a TedTalk from 2006 featuring Richard Baraniuk discussing Connexions, his open-source, online education program. I found it interesting to hear the logic behind his platform, which has been in planning for 6.5 years. He addresses many benefits - publishing on demand books, saving money, customized and differentiated learning, interactive pages, etc. He also speaks to the issue of quality control of sharing information. While I watched this video, I thought to myself that it really is becoming a small world where everyone is connected, just like for this course. Even though online education and sharing is a great idea and is very prominent today, I couldn't help but wonder at what costs are its effects -> job loss.

This is a brief description of what indigenous knowledge is, and its importance to local cultures in Africa due to it being a system's foundation. The link also touches on the risks of losing this kind of knowledge with the increase of technology. Examples are of how people can be adversely affected by technology.