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Handy site for winning arguments about spelling and usage of written English.

Some video tutorials on doing stuff in Moodle.

Over 20,000 free science video lectures from first class universities around the globe (English only).

Links to various articles:   "The German tradition of social pedagogy has become associated with social work. This tends to obscure its educational credentials as 'education for sociality', particularly to English-language readers. Here we explore its history and current status."

Great looking site built by 1st years. "AllAboutLinguistics.com was created by first-year linguistics students at the University of Sheffield, supported by staff in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics. The website formed part of the students assessment, after they completed a course called Introduction to Linguistics, and it aims to share the knowledge they gained from this module with anyone outside the University who is interested in language and its study - especially A-Level students thinking of going on to study linguistics at University. We asked students to build the site because as beginners in linguistics themselves, they were in a good position to help explain the discipline to you."

"That "Eureka" moment when a student thunders over an educational hurdle opening up a new realm of learning, is the holy grail for educators. The technical term is a "threshold concept", and they're being discovered in every discipline from economics to engineering, design and English grammar."

WikiReader - Mobile device with all Wikipedia english language articles. Works offline but can be updated with current content. Simple and cheap.

"Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month. Its content services the educational needs of learners of all ages, in nearly every discipline, from math and science to history and English to psychology and sociology. Connexions delivers content for free over the Internet for schools, educators, students, and parents to access 24/7/365. Materials are easily downloadable to almost any mobile device for use anywhere, anytime. Schools can also order low cost hard copy sets of the materials (textbooks)."

Theses described in plain English.

Check your writing style to make things easier to understand. Active tool which suggests parts of text to revise for clarity.

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This wiki is set up to catalog university-based open educational resources projects. Currently we are focusing only English-speaking OER projects.