Open Educational Resources (OER) Referatory

Open Source Office Suite: LibreOffice

On August 15, 2013

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LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. The LibreOffice suite comprises programs to do word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams, maintain databases, and compose math formulae. It is designed to be compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, though some Microsoft Office layout features and formatting attributes are handled differently or are unsupported. LibreOffice is available in over 30 languages and for a variety of computing platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or newer, and Linux. It is the default office suite of most popular Linux distributions.

Openly licensed images from the Getty Museum

by mpaskevi

On August 13, 2013

In Images

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The J. Paul Getty Trust launched its Open Content Program which saw the release of 4,600 high-resolution scans of works from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles as open content. This means that the digital images in this new release can be downloaded and re-used without restriction and without the need to get permission.

Academic Earth

by mpaskevi

On August 12, 2013

In Video

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Academic Earth serves as an easily-accessible repository for online academic lectures from universities around the world.

Project Gutenberg Images

by mpaskevi

On August 9, 2013

In Images

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Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks in the public domain. Search for images from these texts at the link above.

TileMill an Open Source Project by MapBox

by mpaskevi

On July 17, 2013

In Open Source Software

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TileMill is a tool for cartographers to quickly and easily design maps for the web using custom data. It is built on the powerful open-source map rendering library Mapnik – the same software OpenStreetMap and MapQuest use to make some of their maps. TileMill is not intended to be a general-purpose cartography tool, but rather focuses on streamlining and simplifying a narrow set of use cases.

For anyone coming from a GIS or cartography background, the biggest assumption TileMill makes is the final projection – TileMill maps are always projected to “Web Mercator”. As the name suggests, this projection is popular with web mapping applications, thus maps created with TileMill can be displayed using the Google Maps API, OpenLayers, and a number of other projects.

Open Courseware Consortium Search

by mpaskevi

On July 11, 2013

In Referatory

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Search for free online courses from prestigious higher education institutions around the globe. Our search index currently contains 8,760 courses from 68 sources and 20 languages, and growing.

OpenLearn

by mpaskevi

On July 11, 2013

In Repositories

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OpenLearn: free learning resources and courses from The Open University in the United Kingdom.

Open Yale Courses

by mpaskevi

On July 11, 2013

In Repositories

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Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

MIT OpenCourseWare

by mpaskevi

On July 11, 2013

In Repositories

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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

Flickr Creative Commons Collection

by mpaskevi

On July 11, 2013

In Images

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Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.