INFORMATION RESOURCES

Educational Repositories

 

AllLearn, Alliance for Lifelong Learning (project ceased)
http://www.alllearn.org/
A consortium among University of Oxford, Stanford University and Yale University that provides 110 online courses.  Course contents from individual university are accessible at:

Oxford University: http://wwww.conted.ox.ac.uk/alllearn/  

Stanford University: http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/ 

Yale University: http://www.aya.yale.edu/learning/

The Australian Educational Researcher (AER), The AARE Journal
http://www.aare.edu.au/aer/aer.htm
AER Journal is a collection of all aspects of education-related research papers in Australia. Abstracts and full text are available.

Berkeley Webcast (University of California, Berkeley)
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php
Podcasts and Webcasts of UC Berkeley’s current and archived courses.

Braintrack University Index
http://www.braintrack.com/
Over 8,300 links to Higher Educational Institutions in 194 Countries.

Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative (OLI)
http://www.cmu.edu/oli/
A collection of openly available and free online courses, and course materials in an online format.  Subjects include biology, calculus, causal reasoning, chemistry, economics, empirical research methods, French, logic and proofs, physics, and statistics, etc.

Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
http://cnx.org/
Provides a series of links to free scholarly materials, and offers space to authors and instructors, who can publish their works, as well as share the common courses within the website.

The Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR
http://www.opendoar.org/
OpenDOAR is a directory of academic open access repositories.

Educause
http://www.educause.edu
Educause holds and disseminates educational research and analysis in terms of role and implications of Information Technology in higher education. Abstracts and full text are included.

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php
A digital library of websites and other digital objects such as previous versions of websites, moving images, audio materials, text-dominated materials, and more.

John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/topics.cfm
Free access to course materials on public health subjects

MERLOT—Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
http://www.merlot.org/
More than 15,000 educational materials are freely available, which are targeting to higher education students and faculties. Abstracts, peer review, and links to the materials are presented in each entry.

MIT OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Provides course information, and teaching materials in various subject areas. Free to download.

Open University OpenLearn Learning Space
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/index.php
Offer free access to course materials on subjects such as Arts and History, Business and Management, Education, Health and Lifestyle, IT and computing, Mathematics and Statistics, Languages, Science and Nature, Society, Study Skills, and Technology, etc.

Sofia – Sharing Of Free Intellectual Assests
http://sofia.fhda.edu/
The Sofia project is an open content initiative launched by the Foothill - De Anza Community College District to promote faculty and institutional sharing of online content.

University of Notre Dame
http://ocw.nd.edu/eduCommons/Courses_listing
Offering free course contents on humanities subjects such as anthropology, architecture, Gender Studies, History, Philosophy, and Political Science, etc.

University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/course-webs.html
Course contents on computer science and engineering topics provided by University of Washington

Utah State OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.usu.edu/front-page/Courses_listing
Provide free, searchable, access to course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.

Wikiversity
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Browse
An online learning portal that covers subjects such as Humanities, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Practical Arts and Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Sciences, Education, Media, Professions, Learning Projects, Learning Materials, and Other portals.

World education forum, country report
http://www2.unesco.org/wef/countryreports/home.html
Contains full text basic education reports in 180 countries. Education, including statistics on enrollment, literacy, educational levels of teachers, and academic and vocational education, and much more. Sponsored by UNESCO, and World Education Forum.