LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OER) and Creative Commons: Open Access Courses/MOOCS

What is an Open Course/MOOC?

What is an Open Course?

Open Course is a broad term that extends the concept of "open educational resources" by indicating that not only the content but also the learning and interaction within a course is freely available. There are open courses on a variety of topics, for various groups and ages. Open courses generally do not allow students to earn formal course credit or degrees. (Some colleges and universities may offer a credit earning version of some of their open courses, for an added fee; for example, U of C, Irvine)

What is a MOOC? by Educause

Open Course Resources

Coursera
Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
EdX
iTunes U
ITUnes U is home to more than 500,000 free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on thousands of subjects. iTunes U. Stanford, Yale, Oxford, UC Berkeley, MoMA, and the New York Public Library are among the hundreds of institutions that are sharing courses, lectures, videos, books, and other resources with students and lifelong learners all over the world using an ITunes U course site. Students need to download the ITunes app (Windows or Apple) to access via ITunes
Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers a wide array of videos, tools and resources for the classroom. Students can create a custom profile and earn badges to measure progress.
MIT Open Courseware
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.
Open Education Consortium
The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education.
OpenLearn
The home of free learning from Open University in the UK.
Open UW
Free online courses from the University of Washington.
P2PU
Learning by everyone, for everyone, about almost anything, completely free.
Saylor.Org Academy
Saylor.org is a free and open collection of college level courses. Each course culminates with a final exam, and students receiving a passing grade can download a certificate of completion.
University of the People
University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first non-profit, tuition-free, accredited, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally for all qualified individuals, despite financial, geographic or societal constraints.
UMass Boston Open Courseware
UC Irvine Open Courseware
UC Irvine was the first West Coast university and UC campus to join the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC). It offers many OCW courses at its site.