openeducation

online access to 2 very expensive telescopes// also an online school in astronomy.

Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace provides an overview of the first steps of this exciting new development: it captures the conversations between leaders of some of the first OER projects, and documents early debates on the issues that continue to challenge the movement. The publication will provide food for thought for all those intrigued by OER - its promise and its progress.

Homework Help for High School and College Students\nStudy Guides and Practice Tests\nLecture Notes\nOnline Tutoring Alternative\nMath Problems and Step-by-Step Answers

University of the People (UoPeople) is the world's first tuition-free, online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education.

The case for a socially responsible business model based on the logic of free/libre and open source software. In essence, we propose a hybrid of existing licenses that captures most of their benefits while mitigating most of their costs. It also permits both non-profits and for-profits to become self-sustaining.

Friends is an attempt to build up a community network around the concept of Equal Opportunity Research Publishing also based on the Open Access Initiative movement : The Budapest Open Access Initiative , the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.

informative TUD website about doing research

Open educational resources website with lots of lectures from high profile universities as Yale and MIT

YouTube page with all university channels. Interesting videos.

another initiative to create free (open access) textbooks

Tool to make open textbooks

We are going to have to seize on the current crisis to make transformative change and conjure up new institutions - or least new learning paradigms. One of our core values must be to seize these "new ways of sharing ideas or organizing human life," to be compulsive sharers and utilize these tools and our learning networks to transform our schools, our communities and our world.

by Michael King, VP education at IBM

University of the People (UoP) is the world's first tuition-free, online academic institution and will open its virtual doors in April 2009.

blogpost about business, revenue models and sustainability of Open Educational Resources.

Andy Lane (Open University) on the sustainability of Open Educational Resources