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On August 28, 2013

In Repositories

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The Orange Grove repository, is Florida’s digital repository for instructional resources. The repository provides an environment for educators to search for, use, remix, share, and contribute educational resources. The repository can also be integrated with your Learning Management Systems (e.g., Desire2Learn).

BC Open Textbooks Project

On August 28, 2013

In Textbooks

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The BC government is working with BC Campus to develop free, online, open textbooks for a variety of popular subjects. The project will result in freely available textbooks for web or mobile consumption, or for download which can be printed by instructors and students for use in their courses. BC Campus has a link to a selection of existing textbooks they have been reviewing on their website in a variety of disciplines.

Internet Archive: Ebook and Texts Archive

On August 16, 2013

In ebooks

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The Internet Archive’s site OpenLibrary provides an interface to download free books and texts published on archive.org and links to other online book collections. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts and academic books.

Welcome to the Open Educational Resources Directory

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Welcome to the Vancouver Island University Open Educational Resource Directory, a website which allows instructors and students to quickly access links to open educational content for course development, assignments, or creative projects. The sites are organized by the types of media you will find on them using categories and tags. Click on the image of a site to go to the resource.

To learn more about open educational resources see the About OER page.

If you know of a site which you find useful, please contribute it!

Curriki

In Repositories

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Curriki is an online, free, open education service. Curriki is structured as a nonprofit organization to provide open educational resources primarily in support of K-12 education. Curricula and instructional materials are available at the Curriki website to teachers, professional educators, students, lifelong learners, and parents. The majority of the resources on the Curriki site fall under a Creative Commons license. Educational materials are provided by the Curriki community and are peer-reviewed for quality and adherence to standards.

Open Source Audio Editing: Audacity

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Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor and recording computer software application, available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other operating systems. Audacity can be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out.

Opensource Photoshop Clone: GIMP

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GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image retouching and editing tool and is released under the LGPLv3 and later versions and the GPLv3 and later versions as free and open-source software. There are versions tailored for most operating systems including Linux, OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

GIMP has tools used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks. Animated images such as GIF and MPEG files can be created using an animation plugin.

VLC Media Player

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VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a portable free and open-source cross-platform media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project. VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream over computer network and to transcode multimedia files.

Open Source Office Suite: LibreOffice