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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.

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.

The Wisc-Online Resource Center is a digital library of Web-based learning resources called learning objects.

Repository of learning objects that are free to use.

The Wisc-Online Resource Center is a digital library of Web-based learning resources called learning objects.

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

Instructional Design Central, an online Portal for instructional design resources and community collaboration

Intute provides free access to high-quality Internet resources for education and research

Web 2.0 Files is the ultimate webmaster resource, bringing every corner of the web into one spot, one database and one page - ready to be discovered.

The Illinois Online Network (ION) is a collaboration of all community colleges in Illinois and the University of Illinois working together to advance utilization of technology enhanced and Internet-based instruction and service.

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.

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.

An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. And Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!

Slideshow from Karen Fasimpaur of K12 Open Ed.

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."

Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.