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The CK-12 Foundation is a California-based non-profit organization striving to reduce the cost of, and increase access to, K-12 education in the United States and worldwide. A leading provider of open educational resources, CK-12 provides free and fully customizable K-12 educational materials aligned to state curriculum standards and tailored to meet student and teacher needs.

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.

Putting Educational Innovations Into Practice 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.

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Through Jorum, you can find and share learning and teaching resources, shared by the UK Further and Higher Education community.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.

The network that brings together 44,519 OER, tools for sharing curriculum with the world, and news and training on the brave new world of open education.

a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:

Sir Ken chats about education in terms of nurturing learning environments

A social news and entertainment website where registered users submit content in the form of either a link or a text ("self") post.

A nice Slideshow outlining how to access Open Education Sources.

A bit of a departure from education per se, but an interesting look at tweeting and where it may be evolving. And if Facebook is now 'old' how soon will it take for Twitter to be old...?

Dissonance between top down and bottom up adoption can be challenging.... What do administrators where you are think....?

Another part of the equation --retention! Some interesting comments,too,about requisite skills

Not just for higher education (though these aren't the first k-12 MOOCS and the professional development aspect could have some interesting outcomes....

Re: "Online learning shaking up the world of education," Jan. 30. Monday I started a MOOC (massive open online course) at the University of Edinburgh, "An Introduction to Philosophy." Eighty thousand students are enrolled. My email inbox is crammed with hundreds of introductory personal statements covering what meals students just ate, major obsessions, relationships, etc.

Twenty years from now, many colleges and universities will be closed, their classrooms deserted and their students learning at home. These are the predictions of many post-secondary commentators these days. What is it that has changed so drastically? Is it that students are more demanding, faculty less committed, budgets too tight?

A site that is promoting coding in schools. Resources and testimonials on why this is a skill that should be taught in our schools, and where this knowledge will take our students.

An inspiring vision of where our schools could be headed, with students utilizing the power of the internet to the fullest, and becoming fully responsible for what they are learning and how they learn it.