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Free Online Courses from Top Universities

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A list of free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 725 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player.

Creative Commons Search

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Find content across multiple repositories available under Creative Commons.

PhET Interactive Simulations

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PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. We believe that our research-based approach- incorporating findings from prior research and our own testing- enables students to make connections between real-life phenomena and the underlying science, deepening their understanding and appreciation of the physical world.

Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ

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Categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Khan Academy

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With a library of over 3,000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, the Khan Academy is on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

Openstax College

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Openstax offers free textbooks developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate, and meet the scope and sequence requirements of your course.

Wikibooks

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Open textbooks, manuals, annotated texts and guides available in a wiki editor. Wikibooks contains nearly 2500 books available freely for editing.

Connexions

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Part of Rice University, Connexions is a repository of free learning materials organized and easily exported as textbooks. Content is modularized and can be mixed and combined to make custom resources.

MERLOT

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MERLOT = Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching; peer reviewed open and online resources for faculty, staff and students in higher education.

OER Commons

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Funded by Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) An independent non-profit institute dedicated to helping educators share information since 2007. The OER Commons search engine allows you to search multiple repositories at once and gather resources from multiple institutions.

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