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Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced a partnership that will host online courses from both institutions free of charge. The platform, its creators say, has the potential to improve face-to-face classes on the home campuses while giving students around the world access to a blue-ribbon education. The new venture, called edX, grew out of MIT’s announcement last year that it would offer free online courses on a platform called MITx.

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Saylor.org is a free and open collection of college level courses. There are no registrations or fees required to take our courses, and you will earn a certificate upon completion of each course. Because we are not accredited, you will not earn a college degree or diploma; however, our team of experienced college professors has designed each course so you will be able to achieve the same learning objectives as students enrolled in traditional colleges. 

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Missed lectures or hate teachers? Or want to study computer science courses without going to university? … You can study anytime anywhere because there are number of free online computer science courses available on internet that are very interactive.

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OpenCourseWare is a worldwide free and open initiative whose aim is to provide free access to course materials taught at faculties. It was created in 2001 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) thanks to the contribution of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. UdL is a member of OpenCourseWare Consortium, a worldwide community of universities and associated organizations. The mission of this consortium is to improve education and promote self-learning by providing open access to knowledge without restrictions.

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COL has adopted the widest definition of Open Educational Resources (OER) as ‘materials offered freely and openly to use and adapt for teaching, learning, development and research’. While OER are mainly shareable in digital formats (both online and via offline formats such as DVD or CD-ROM), COL sees OER not just synonymous with online resources, online learning or e-learning, and within the development context COL is working, OER can also be in printable formats.

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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.

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Sites where anyone can deposit, or link to, an OCW. Contributions may be screened or not.

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The following information will help you locate open educational resources (OERs) and OpenCourseWare (OCW), find Open textbooks and discover other outstanding OCW Web sites.

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MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will: organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace; feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication; allow for the individual assessment of any student’s work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.

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MIT announces a new online learning initiative, internally called MITx, which combines research, technical innovation and new online learning opportunities.

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While students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pay thousands of dollars for courses, the university will announce a new program on Monday allowing anyone anywhere to take M.I.T. courses online free of charge — and for the first time earn official certificates for demonstrating mastery of the subjects taught.

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From its inception, the web has always had appeal as an educational resource. Recognising the potential for remote learning, in 2002, the launch of OpenCourseWare at MIT helped propel the initiative into the spotlight, with many universities following suit and providing quality educational material available through the web. No longer is there an excuse for anyone with access to the web to say that education is outside of their reach. This collection of links and applications highlights just the tip of the iceberg of educational resources that are available on the web. If you are interested in teaching yourself a new skill or learning a new topic indepth in your spare time, hopefully some of these will be of use.

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"Everything has a history: each person, plant, animal and object, our planet, and the entire universe. Each history offers valuable insights. Together, they reveal even more. Big history weaves evidence and insights from many scientific and historical disciplines into a single, accessible origin story – one that explores who we are, how we got here, how we are connected to everything around us, and where we may be heading. The Big History Project is dedicated to fostering a greater love and capacity for learning among high school students. Started by Bill Gates and David Christian our goal is to get big history taught to as many students around the world as possible. Find out more and see how you can join the Project."

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"Enthusiasts think open courses have the potential to uplift a nation of Zieglers by helping them piece together cheaper degrees from multiple institutions. But some worry that universities' projects may stall, because the recession and disappearing grant money are forcing colleges to confront a difficult question: What business model can support the high cost of giving away your "free" content? "With the economic downturn, I think it will be a couple of years before Yale or other institutions are likely to be able to make substantial investments in building out a digital course catalog," says Linda K. Lorimer, vice president and secretary at Yale, which is publishing a 36-class, greatest-hits-style video set called Open Yale Courses. Over the long term, she argues, such work will flourish."

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"The mission of K12EdCom.org is to promote and publish OpenCourseWare for K12 schools. OpenCourseWare is curriculum and learning material published under the Creative Commons License. Everything published on this web site is free to use and redistribute."

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"Many faculty members of Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences create digital educational resources for use by students in Penn State courses. Faculty participants in the College's OER initiative have contributed their work voluntarily for use by teachers and learners around the world who can't afford to enroll in formal classes, or who don't need to earn academic credit. The College announced its OER initiative - Penn State's first - July 29, 2008. See the announcement at Penn State Live. Resources include digital video, texts, simulations, animations and illustrations, all organized by course. Links to the resources, which Penn State calls "courseware modules," appear in the Courseware section of this site."

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"Led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's pioneering OpenCourseWare project, are we now putting the final nails in our coffin by putting up our content on iTunesU and other open-access sites? Or are we serving the public—and our own—long-term interest by embracing any mechanism that allows us to spread knowledge? Do we have reason to fear that tuitions approaching $50,000 per year are not sustainable when anyone can log on and learn from some of the best professors in the business without paying a dime?"

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"Connect your favorite courses to relevant learning resources. Exchange knowledge and information with other members whose academic interests match yours. Join peers and professors in exploring the newest academic frontier:
free online courses."

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This issue of eLearning Papers is dedicated to the thriving work around Open Educational Resources (OER) by committed individuals, institutions and user communities. Five selected papers by the guest editors investigate the organisational, social, cultural, pedagogical and technical aspects of implementing OER.

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The Open High School of Utah is believed to be the first secondary school in the nation (perhaps the world) to use learning materials and textbooks that are freely available for anyone's use, remixing and redistribution. Because the materials aren't produced by commercial publishers, they can be tailored to meet students' educational needs, free of copyright or licensing restraints.

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