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When educators pool their expertise to create a culture of shared knowledge, everyone benefits. Use of open textbooks can lower educational costs for students. Become involved with the open educational resources (OER) movement so that doors to higher education stay open to all. The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, the League for Innovation in the Community College and many other community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources (OER) in community college courses."

This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Karen Fasimpaur about OER (Open Educational Resources) and open content licensing options at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington. The program description of Karen's session was: Learning should be free and accessible to everyone! Come learn about how the Open Educational Resources movement is reshaping education. We'll look at Open Source tools, repositories of free textbooks, images, videos, music, lessons, and more. You'll learn how to access these and contribute your own resources so others can benefit.

Discover high quality, free, and open textbooks at the newly launched Community College Open Textbook Project website. The Project is a one-year feasibility study generously funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to examine sustainable approaches to promoting use and development of high quality, open textbooks.

This podcast is a recording of a session I shared on July 9, 2008, at the Missouri Distance Learning Association's Annual Conference in Osage Beach, Missouri, titled "Digital Learning Objects on the Open Web." The ideas shared in this session were strongly influenced by Karen Fasimpaur's February 2008 presentation at NCCE titled "Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning for All."

Free educational technology conference that archives all sessions. Free to download or watch on the computer.

The Open Clip Art Library aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project must be placed into the Public Domain according to the Public Domain statement created by the Creative Commo...

The Open Clip Art Library aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used.

The Open Clip Art Library aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project must be placed into the Public Domain according to the Public Domain statement created by the Creative Commo...

A list of open content: clipart, photos, maps, videos, music, spoken word, sound effects.

Slideshow from Karen Fasimpaur of K12 Open Ed.

With open courseware, however, you can learn about a wide range of topics, from classroom behavior to using the latest technologies at your own pace. While it's no substitute for real classroom education, it can provide an invaluable supplement and guide to your educational pursuits and classroom management.

This is a place to find information about some of the best open resources for K-12 education.

A collaboration of teachers, researchers and students with the common purpose of developing open, reusable learning assets (e.g. animations, simulations, models, case studies, etc.).

Search for photos licenses with Creative Commons. The Open Photo Project (http://openphoto.net) is a moderated photo community with the goal of uniting image consumers and producers through friendly Creative Commonsy (http://creativecommons.org) licensing.

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.

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities. To learn more, try a guided tour or start editing now.

Find Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from around the World Organize K-12 Lessons, College Courses, and more for your Classroom. Search for open educational resources.

eduCommons is an OpenCourseWare management system designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects like USU OCW. eduCommons will help you develop and manage an open access collection of courses.

"Free Reading is a high-quality, open-source, free reading intervention program for grades K-3."

Open Source Software (cross platform): The following programs can save schools hundreds of dollars in software expenditure per computer, and run on all common school platforms (Windows, Macintosh, and Linux)

A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning

OpenOffice.org: The Open Office Suite

OpenOffice.org: The Open Office Suite