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ZaidLearn is back from another non-blogging vacation (Who cares!)! Excellent point! Anyway, before I get back to my wacky 5-part learning series (in 2 weeks time!), I need to settle something urgently, and that is to compile and organize all my University learning related OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Open Educational Resources (OER) links that are scattered here and there, into one smashing post. In short, this post is about smashing all free University learning related OCW and OER resources and collections discovered into an all-in-one (sounds like shampoo!) quick-to-access/find juicy compilation. Hopefully, it will satisfy my thirst for quick access to free University learning related content.

Interestingly, this post will be a dynamic one, meaning that I will continue to update (and revamp!) it as I discover, or others share ideas and recommend new oceans of free knowledge.

STARTING POINTS
But before we get bogged down by tons of free learning repositories, here are few good starting points to find and know more about OER and OCW:

SEARCH

• EdX
• EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web.  EdX's goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages, means, and nations, and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience.
• Coursera
  
  social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.
• Udemy
  Empowers anyone to build and share their course(s) online for free or even commercially.
• Khan Academy
  
  The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Currently, you can find 2000+ short video tutorials on (mostly maths, but also history, finance, etc.), online exercises and visual tracking and progress reports to support your learning.
• Udacity
  
  Udacity was founded by three roboticists who believed much of the educational value of their university classes could be offered online. A few weeks later, over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled in our first class, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence."
• Extreme Learning
  
  Extreme learning blends physical and digital environments, concentrating on activities that enlist technology in uncommon or unique ways. Extreme learning also includes more sedate and passive forms of learning including watching an online video in TED, LinkTV, CurrentTV, or YouTube. Through extreme learning Web resources, those stuck behind prison walls, injured and in a hospital bed, or unemployed and unable to pay for college tuition can learn to be more productive members of society.
• Einztein
  
  Find free online courses. Connect your favorite courses to relevant learning resources. Exchange knowledge and information with other members whose academic interests match yours. Join peers and professors in exploring the newest academic frontier: free online courses.
• Virtual Professors
  
  Delivers interesting Free College Online Courses to you each day. They are handpicked from some of the most interesting free online college courses from the best universities and seminars held from around the world. In addition, you’ll find a handy directory to universities which have free college online courses.
• Academic Earth
  An educational video website with the goal of enhancing the usability and expanding the awareness of OER, focusing first on video lectures.
• YouTube EDU
  YouTube has aggregated all of the videos from its college and university partners - including luminaries like Stanford, Harvard, and Dartmouth - in one place.
• OCW/OER Search
  This Google customed search engine enables you to search the sites that are linked from this post (with a few filters, too). Click here to view Tony Hirst's (Credit to him for the super idea!) OER/OCW search version, which also searches sites linked on this post. Click here to view Scott Leslie's upgraded version, which brings it to a Do-It-Together level by using a Wiki enabling anyone to add OER/OCW links (URLs).
• OER Recommender
• Makes it easy for open education resource providers to provide links to related resources. A good starting point to search and find relevant OER resources.
• Folksemantic
  Browse and search over 110,000 Open Education Resources (OERs). "This is an open educational resource recommender. There's also a website widget and a Firefox extension. The system basically provides access to NSDL resources, but also Johns Hopkins, MERLOT and MIT-OCW resources. OER Recommender now has real-time analysis of OER resources related to other web pages (eg. Amazon). It's all free and open source, and the code is available" - Stephen Downes
• OER Commons
  A global teaching and learning network of free-to-use resources – from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware – for you to use, tag, rate, and review.
• Open Courseware Directory
  You will find 7 groups of subject-specific open courseware, including specialized resources for each subject. It is an annotated listing of publicly available courseware (lecture notes, handouts, slides, tutorial material, exam questions, quizzes, videos, demonstrations, etc) from the world's universities, colleges and other educational institutions
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
  The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
• Free Online Courses
  It includes thousands of links to courses in subjects ranging from architecture to chemistry to women’s studies and these courses are prepared by top institutions such as MIT, Yale University and University of California.

COMMUNITIES

• WikiEducator
  An evolving community intended for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of OER. development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs.
• Wikiversity
  Wikibooks, Collection of open-content textbooks. Wikiversity is intended for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities.
• UNESCO OER Community
  This site was originally created by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) as a place where members of the UNESCO OER Community can work together on questions, issues and documents. There are some wonderful resources here providing you with relevant information needed to understand what OER is about, how to use/contribute/collaborate, and how to move forward (e.g. OER: the Way Forward , OER stories, OER presentations and UNESCO OER Toolkit)

NEWS

• OER Blogs
  An initiative from MIT's OpenCourseWare project to aggregate and stimulate discussion about open educational resources. It is a great resource to keep yourself updated about the latest trends and developments in OCW and OER.
• Open Education News
  A number of individuals from the US, South Africa, and eventually other locations daily monitor the internet for news related to open education. It is essentially a group blog.
• Open Education - Free Education For All
  This site led by Thomas J. Hanson is dedicated to tracking the changes occurring in education today.

AMAZING COLLECTIONS!
Why start bookmarking free learning content out there from scratch, when there are great people out there that have already assembled amazing OCW collections for us to explore (for free!). Here are a few amazing OCW collections shared by special people out there:

• 1,000+ Open Textbooks and Learning Resources for All Subjects
• Lecturefox - Free University Lectures (Andreas and Ellen Petersen)
• Free Online Courses from Great Universities (Open Culture)
• Intelligent YouTube Video Collections (Open Culture)
• 30+ List of Computer Science Video Lectures (Over 200 Videos)
• 200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything (Jessica Hupp)
• More than 100 Free Places to Learn Online - and Counting (Jeff Cobb)
• OER - Open Educational Resources (Jeff Cobb)
• 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Developers (Laura Milligan)
• 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges in the World (Heather Johnson)
• 60+ Killer Open Courseware Collections for Web Designers (Jessica Hupp)
• Top 100 Open Courseware Projects (OEDb)
• The 100 Best Open Education Resources on the Web
• 250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives (OEDb)
• 100+ Sources for Free Books & Texts Online (Alisa Miller)
• The Stingy Scholar's OCW Collection
• Online Neuroscience Lectures

UNIVERSITY LEARNING & OCW

The OCW or University related learning content compilation below is organized according to Country, University and my urge to quick access. Not much metadata here about each University or repository, except quick access to the juicy links. Hopefully, it makes 'repository finding sense' to you. This compilation was influenced by this great list! Yes, some parts were even copy/paste! :)

NORTH AMERICA

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  - MIT OCW
  - MIT OCW - Audio/Video Courses
  - MIT OCW - YouTube
  - MIT World
  - MIT TechTV
  
• Harvard University
  - Harvard Business Online (Podcasts)
  - Harvard - Homeric Odyssey..Justice (Podcasts)
  - Harvard - Kennedy School of Gov (Podcasts)
  - Harvard Law School (Podcasts)
  - Classics Podcasts (Harvard)
  - BerkmanCenter's Channel (Harvard Law School) (YouTube)
  - BokTube - BokCenter's YouTube Channel (Harvard) (YouTube)
  
  
• University of California
  - UC Irvine (OCW)
  - University of California, Berkeley (Podcasts)
  - Berkeley on iTunes (Podcasts)
  - University of California (Berkeley) (YouTube)
  - University of California Television (UCTV) (YouTube)
  - Berkeley YouTube Lectures
  - U California eScholarship Repository
  - CalTech Today (Podcasts)
  - Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (Podcasts)
  - Berkeley Resources (Podcasts)
  
  
• Princeton
  - UChannel (Princeton) (YouTube)
  - Princeton U's Event SM (Podcasts)
  - Princeton U's New Media Center (Podcasts)
  - Princeton University Channel (Podcasts)
  - Princeton University WebMedia (Podcasts)
  
  
• Stanford University
  - Stanford on iTunes (Podcasts)
  - Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner
  - Stanford University (Edu. Corner) (Podcasts)
  - Stanford University Audio/Video (Podcasts)
  - Stanford on YouTube
  - Stanford Center for Professional Development Free Engineering Seminars
  
  
• Yale University
  - Open Yale Courses (OCW)
  - Yale University (Podcasts)
  
  
• Johns Hopkins University- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (OCW)
  - Johns Hopkins U (Podcasts)
  
  
• Rice University
  - Connexions (OCW)
  - Rice University (Podcasts)
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon University- Open Learning Initiative (OCW)
  - Carnegie Mellon (YouTube)
  
  
• University of Michigan
  - Open.Michigan (OER)
  - Open.Michigan (YouTube)

Other OCW:

• Tufts University
• UMass Boston
• University of Notre Dame
• Utah OpenCourseWare Alliance
• Utah State University
• SOFIA Project

Other YouTube Channels:

• University of Southern California (USC)
• University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
• Vanderbilt University
• University of Chicago Press
• University of Arizona
• Tulane University
• Purdue University
• Old Dominion (US)
• Duke University News
• AuburnUniversity's Videos

Other Podcast Libraries:

• Knowledge Wharton
• University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Alleghany College
• American University (Law)
• Arizona State University
• Boston College (Front Row)
• Buffalo State College
• Butte College
• Carleton University Television
• Case School of Law
• Center for Int. Studies (Chicago)
• College of DuPage
• Dartmouth Chance
• Drexel University
• Duke University Multimedia
• Georgetown University Forum
• Georgetown University Webcasts
• Georgia College & State U
• Kansas State University (Landon)
• Lewis & Clark Law School
• Mathematical Sc. Res. Inst.
• Montclair State University
• Perdue Boilercast
• Rockefeller University
• Southwest Tech's CourseCasts
• St. Edward's University
• Swarthmore College U Lectures
• UCLA Bruincast
• UCLA Webcasts
• University of Arizona College of Law
• University of British Columbia
• University of California TV
• University of Connecticut
• University of New South Wales
• University of Oregon
• University of Southern California
• University of Texas
• University of Virginia
• University of Warwick
• University of Washington TV
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Vanderbilt University
• Weber University
• Western Kentucky University
• York College Lectures

EUROPE

UNITED KINGDOM

• The Open University
• OpenLearn
• YouTube Channel
  
• University College Falmouth (UCF)
• UCF's openSpace
• UCF YouTube Channel

• Humbul Humanities Hub (Oxford)
• Cambridge University (Podcasts)
• London School of Economics (Podcasts)
• University of Nottingham (Podcasts)
• Oxford Internet University (Podcasts)
• University of Bath (Podcasts)
• Times-Online MBA Broadcasts (Podcasts)
• Oxford University Saïd Business School (YouTube)

FRANCE

• ParisTech "Graduate School" (11 universities - French)
• Grenoble Ecole de Management (French)
• UniversitySurf (French)
• Insead Podcasts

HOLLAND

• Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) (English)
• Open Universiteit Nederland (Dutch)

SPAIN

• OpenCourseWare Universia (10 universities - Spanish, Catalan, Galician)

SWITZERLAND

• European Graduate School (EGS) (YouTube)

TURKEY

• Middle East Technical University (METU)

ASIA

MALAYSIA

• Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Open Courseware
  

AUSTRALIA

• University of Southern Queensland

NEW ZEALAND

• New Zealand Open Educational Resources Project

SAUDI ARABIA

• KFUPM Open Courseware

JAPAN

• United Nations University
• Japan OCW Consortium
• Doshisha University
• Hokkaido University
• Kagawa Nutrition University
• Kansai University
• Keio University
• Kyoto University
• Kyoto Seika University
• Kyushu University
• Meiji University
• Nagoya University
• Osaka University
• Ritsumeikan University
• Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
• Tokyo Institute of Technology
• University of Tokyo
• University of Tsukuba
• Waseda University

INDIA

• Indian Institute of Technology/Indian Institute of Science (YouTube)
• Rai OpenCourseware
• The Indira Gandhi National Open University

KOREA

• Korea University
• Kyung Hee University

TAIWAN

• National Chiao Tung University (Chinese)

VIETNAM

• EduNet OpenCourseWare
• Fulbright Economics Teaching Program OCW

HONG KONG

• LEARNet - Shareable Learning Resources in Hong Kong

PAKISTAN

• Virtual University of Pakistan

SOUTH AMERICA

MEXICO

• Tecnológico de Monterrey (Spanish)
• Universidad de Monterrey (Spanish)

AFRICA

• OER Africa
  
  OER Africa is an innovative initiative established by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to play a leading role in driving the development and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) across all education sectors on the African continent.

SOUTH AFRICA

• University of Cape Town
• University of the Western Cape
  

TRANSLATION AFFILIATES

• China Open Resources for Education (Simplified Chinese)
• Chulalongkorn University (Thai)
• Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (Traditional Chinese)
• Universia (Portuguese)
• Universia (Spanish)

OTHERS

• Novell OpenCourseWare
  Novell OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational materials developed by Novell Training Services for authorized courses and other customer training purposes.

OER/FREE REPOSITORIES
Below is a list of OER/FREE learning repositories that are not directly linked with any particular university, but are still wonderful repositories or collections of free content that we can in some way or the other use for our courses:

GENERAL

• Wikipedia
  Wikipedia is an amazing encyclopedia (of anything you can think of!) written collaboratively by many of its readers.
• MERLOT
  Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials.
• Wikinews
  Free-content online news source where any site visitor can add or edit stories.
• Answers.com
  Answers.com offers free access to millions of topics from the world's leading publishers.
• Internet Archive
  The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
• Fathom Archive
  Offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and free seminars.
• GLOBE
  The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) is an international consortium that strives to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world.
• dgCommunities
  dgCommunities (Provided by Development Gateway Foundation) is a collaborative space for professionals working to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development worldwide (Members in more than 200 countries).
• HowStuffWorks
  HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations.
• The Most Important Open Course Materials Online
  A useful collection and starting point to discover open courses online. 
• OpenDOAR
  Is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here.
• AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer - Blue Web'n Homepage
  Blue Web'n is a huge online library categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). The content categories available are: arts, business, education, English, foreign languages, health, history and social studies, maths, science, technology among others.
• Monterey Institute for Technology and Education National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)
  A growing library of high-quality online courses for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement. Courses in the NROC library are contributed by developers from leading online-learning programs across the US.
• Apple Learning Interchange
  Is a social network for educators, where you can find content ranging from simple lesson ideas to in-depth curriculum units for K-12 and Higher Education.
• ARIADNE
  The core of the ARIADNE infrastructure is a distributed network of learning repositories.
• CAREO
  The Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects (CAREO) project aims to create both an online repository of educational objects for post-secondary educators and a community that both creates and supports those objects.
• Intute
  A free online service providing you with access to Web resources for education and research. Areas: Science and Technology, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Health and Life, and Sciences.
• Ideas
  An initiative by the University of Wisconsin to identify, evaluate, catalog, and align to the Wisconsin education standards resources that are already on the Internet, such as lesson plans and reference materials.
• JORUM
  Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.
• LeMill - Learning Mill
  Web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources.
• Curriki (K-12)
  Internet site for Open Source Curriculum (OSC), which will provide universal access to free curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12.
• DAREnet
  DAREnet is a search service which gives free access to academic research output in the Netherlands. DAREnet consists of more than 146.000 digital objects.
• EdNA Online (Aus)
  Education Network Australia (edna) is Australia’s leading online resource collection and collaborative network for the education and training community.
• EducaNext
  EducaNext is a service supporting the creation and sharing of knowledge for Higher Education.
• Eureka
  A collective catalog of teaching and learning resources gathered by various organizations involved in the production of ITC educational resources.
• ALISON (Workplace Skills)
  Including Touch Typing Skills, European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), British Computer Society (BCS) Unit E, Financial Literacy and e-Citizen.
• HippoCampus (High School)
  Multimedia and course materials that can help students with their homework and studies.
• Maricopa Learning eXchange
  Is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.
• PEOI
  Professional Educational Organization International (PEOI) was created, and is run by volunteers who believe that it is time for open post secondary education be made available to all free of charge.
• WannaLearn.com
  Here you can find over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented Websites.
• LoLa Exchange
  LoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. It contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy.

EDUCATION

• TeacherTube
  Online community for sharing instructional videos.
• T4 Tips Podcasts
  Audio and video educational technology podcasts providing you tips, guidance and ideas on how to use different learning tools to facilitate effective learning.
• GEM (Gateway to 21st Century Skills)
  Thousands of free lesson plans and other teaching and learning resources.
• SuTree (Educational Videos)
  SuTree is a knowledge community and an aggregator of instructional & educational videos.
• EdTechTalk
  A community of educators interested in discussing and learning about the uses of educational technology. They webcast several live shows each week.

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

• VideoLectures.Net
  Free access to high-quality scientific video lectures.
• The nanoHUB
  
  Is a rich, web-based resource for research, education and collaboration in nanotechnology. The nanoHUB hosts over 1600 resources which will help you learn about nanotechnology, including Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more. Most importantly, the nanoHUB offers simulation tools which you can access from your web browser, so you can not only learn about but also simulate nanotechnology devices.
• Computer Science Teaching Center
  A digital archive of peer reviewed resources for teaching computer science. Submission restricted to registered users.
• CITIDEL
  Computing and IT Interactive Digital Educational Library Repository (CITIDEL) is a great resource to discover computer Science education and research materials.
• e-LEE (Electrical Engineering)
  e-Learning tools for Electrical Engineering.
• Exploratories
  A project of Brown University's Computer Graphics Research Group to create a set of exemplary Web-based learning objects (Java applets) that teach concepts in introductory computer graphics at the college and graduate level. Users can download complete Java applets, or build their own from the components collection.
• EEVL (Engineering, Maths & Comp.)
  A guide to engineering, mathematics and computing information on the internet.
• iLumina
  iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.
• SMETE Digital Library
  Here you can access a wealth of teaching and learning materials as well as join this expanding community of science, math, engineering and technology explorers of all ages.
• arXiv.org e-Print archive
  arXiv, set up by Cornell University, is an e-Print archive specializing in Physics, Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.
• HEAL (Health Education Assets Library)
  HEAL's mission is to provide free digital resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators.
• College of Health Professions (COHP) Online Learning Resources
  Including Dental Hygiene, Health Science, Communicative Sciences & Disorders Medical Technology, Nursing Radiologic Sciences, Respiratory Therapy and Physical Therapy.

HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES

• The Digital Scriptorium
  Is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
• John Locker - Free Documentaries
  Educate yourself with free documentaries online on History, Science, Music, War, Religions, Politics, Conspiracies, and more!

MATHEMATICS

• The Math Forum (Drexel University)
  The Math Forum Is a the leading online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication since 1992, created by teachers, mathematicians, researchers, students, and parents. It offers a wealth of problems and puzzles, online mentoring, research, team problem solving, collaborations and professional development.
• Math World
  A mathematical specific repository, created by Wolfram Research. Contains web based (HTML) resources about algebra, applied mathematics, calculus and analysis, discrete mathematics, geometry, history, number theory, probability, statistics and topology, etc.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• Eduforge
  Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education.
• W3Schools
  At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
• Edumax
  Edumax is an online learning website that provides free lessons on topics from personal development to computer programming.

TEXTBOOKS

• Google Book Search
  In addition to searching, viewing and downloading books, you also receive links to reviews, references, and even a world map showing every location mentioned in the book.
• Gutenberg Project
  Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
• Scribd
  Research, ebooks, poetry, presentations, schoolwork, and more are all available on this site.
• LearnOutLoud.com
  Browse over 15,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.
• Librivox
  LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain (under U.S. right) books available as free audio books. It is a volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.
• Global Text Project
  The project will create open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a Web site.
• Textbook Revolution
  All of the books are offered for free by their respective copyright holders for online viewing. The categories of the textbooks are: Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Computers-Tech, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering, Health Sciences & Medical, History, Math and Physics.
• The Oxford Text Archive
  It collects, catalogues, preserves and distributes high-quality digital resources for research and teaching. They are currently holding thousands of texts in more than 25 different languages, and are actively working to extend their catalogue of holdings.
• freetechbooks.com
  This site offers free books, text books, and lecture notes for computer science, engineering, and computer programming students and professionals.
• Free Online Programming Books
  A list of 300+ free programming books available on the Internet.
• Great Books Index
  Browse by author or title to find text for several books from the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World.
• CIA World Factbook
  Current, in-depth data on every country in the world.

DIGITAL LIBRARIES

• World Digital Library
  Will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials.
• ERIC
  The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.
• OAISTER
  OAIster is a union catalog for a wide range of digital resources. They provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
• Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections
  Find more than 10 different digital collections that range from medieval and early Renaissance manuscripts to architectural drawings or visit the online exhibitions for even more.
• Library of Congress Digital Collections (US)
  It is considered the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
• Universal Digital Library
  Their goal is to preserve every printed book digitally in this resource. The library currently holds one million books in its collection.
• NEEDS Digital Library
  A digital library with links to online learning materials in engineering and related areas of science and math.
  NSDL - The National Science Digital Library (US)
  The Nation's (US) online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
• eGranary Digital Library
  Provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access.

DIGITAL MEDIA

• TED Talks
  Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
• Big Think
  A new and growing website, currently in its beta version, with a simple mission: to move the discussion away from talking heads and talking points, and give it back to you.
• FORA.tv
  FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation.
• WGBH (Free Public Lectures)
  Free live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders.
• Annenberg Media Resources
  Annenberg Media's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods.
• Flickr
  Flickr is photo distributed classification system. It is useful for managing and sharing photos over the Internet. If users want to use a photo of another photographer, if they have created an account they can contact each other through the Flickr intranet. Copyright issues are solved with Creative Commons Licences. You can find millions of free images here, which we can use to spice up our learning content.
• Education Podcast Network
  The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
• Creative Commons
  Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

YOUTUBE CHANNELS

• GoogleTalks
  Google events featuring everyone from newsmakers to bestselling authors (Joseph Stieglitz, Obama, Richard Florida, etc.).
• Google Tech Talks
  There are a large number of technical talks at Google. Many of these are videotaped, and some are made available for external viewing right here.
• The Nobel Prize
  It brings you fascinating insights into the minds of current and past Nobel Laureates.
• TED Talks
  This is the YouTube version of TED Talks, which is a collection of inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
• FORA.tv
  The YouTube version of FORA.tv, which delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation.
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
  It's mission is to promote in-depth coverage of international affairs, focusing on topics that have been under-reported, mis-reported - or not reported at all. The videos you see in this YouTube collection are one part of larger reporting projects from around the world.
• BBC Worldwide
  The Best of British TV. Top Gear, Mighty Boosh, Doctor Who, Attenborough, Parkinson, Catherine Tate & the rest from BBC Worldwide!
• National Geographic
  Inspiring People To Care About The Planet!

WOW! Where to start! Alright, I have to admit that this post is not a smashing one yet. Give me a few weeks of reflection, feedback and smashing, and hopefully the compilation will be a useful starting point and quick access to OER and OCW (Just keep in mind that OCW is OER, but OER is not necessarily OCW! Whatever!). I am beginning to sense OER/OCW information overload here. If I am not mistaken, it would take me approximately 754 years to digest all the resources currently linked here. However, if we connect, network, collaborate, learn and reflect together we might manage to digest (to innovate and improve) these free learning resources in less than 24 hours. Let's use our connective intelligence to educate the world about OER and OCW :)

Until we explore, we will never know! Have fun learning!