Teaching materials - slides, tutorials, graphics, etc.
Open Yale Courses http://open.yale.edu/courses/index.html - high quality video, audio, transcripts, and course materials from a select group of courses from Yale University
OpenCourseWare Consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ - syllabi, lectures, exams, and other course resources from universities all over the world.
Including:
MIT - 1800+ courses in 35 disciplines; the original OCW site. Also try their Lecture Browser for searching their video lectures.
and many more from Austrailia, China, Columbia, France, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Vietnam. Most in English, but some in Spanish, Chinese, French, and Dutch.
Connexions http://cnx.org/ - Creative Commons licensed eduational "modules", sponsored by Rice University
OER (Open Educational Resources) Commons http://www.oercommons.org/ - K-12 and college lesson plans and courseware.
UTOPIA
http://utopia.utexas.edu/ - Educational resources sponsored by the University
of Texas. These include electrical circuit tutorials, French lessons with
Texas cartoon figures, marketing for e-government, Danteworlds, a multimedia
journey through Dante's Inferno, and much, much more. Many items are Texas
themed, naturally.
Open Educational Resources http://topics.developmentgateway.org/openeducation
- resources and links from a number of open education sites, including
the various OpenCourseWare projects. Especially aimed at resources for developing countries.
BioEd Online
http://www.bioedonline.org/ - Biology Teacher Resources from Baylor College
of Medicine. Includes presentations, PowerPoint slides, news, resources, and
"hot topic" guides.
Art Images for College Teaching http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/
- a repository of art images specifically designed for college use. Also includes
references from two dozen art textbooks that describe particular images.
EDUCAUSE Resource Center (Browse by Topic) http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=11
- many resources on education techology. Especially see the "Distributed
Education" section which includes distance education and online classes.
You can also Search from the search link in the lefthand column.
HEAL: Health Education Assets Library http://www.healcentral.org/ - a
peer-reviewed collection of multimedia teaching resources for health education
WikiBooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
- completely open and free textbooks on a wide variety of subjects. There
are no qualifications for creating/editing, so quality varies considerably,
and many books are incomplete. This link is to the English collection, scroll
to the bottom of the page for links to collections in other languages, and
further Wikimedia projects.
Theory and Practice of Online Learning http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/index.html
- an online textbook on online learning from one of the premier online universities,
Athabasca University in Canada.
