The British Library has released 1000 books from its 19th Century collection into a free iPad app that includes novels, historical works, poetry, philosophy and scientific books.

This 6 week course run as part of the P2PU will explore the cultural shift of using open educational resources and how it can benefit both educators and learners.

iUniv is a portal of free and open lecture videos which claims to point to recordings from 67498 classes acros hundreds of institutions and subjects.

Great list of data sources and other sites which could be of use to students and instructors alike. They range from the well-known (Wikipedia) to the highly specialized (http://www.fz-juelich.de/ containing Climate data from Julich Research Center.) – SWL

A portal to over 750 Online Courses and 18400 educational Videos in 35 Categories.

I am usually loathe to link to lists like this as they are created by companies almost solely to increase their placement in search engines, but in this case, it is not a bad list. 25 places to find free books online. How does this Open Education? Well, when it comes to original texts to be studied in class, the option to get free electronic versions is another way the choices professors make can help save students money.

Passed on to us by its creator, John Wetzel, the WikiPremed MCAT course is a “donationware” site (open access but does ask for a donation if you find yourself replying on it heavily) to help students prepare for the MCAT test.

Helpful post by Michael Paskevicius that lists a number of specialized image search engines that will help you find free and openly licensed images for use in your teachind and learning

In a wonderful demonstration of ‘walking the talk,’ Dr. Charles Severance of the University of Michigan remixed an existing open textbook, <a href=”http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html”>Think Python: How to Think like a Computer Scientist</a>, in only 11 days to produce a new textbook for his class, ones students could print out for $10 using a local print-on-demand kiosk on campus.

Those interested in starting an OER project on their own campus may be interested in the new OER Toolkit developed on behalf of UNESCO to be a startup guide for participating in the international open education commons. Lots of good tips and information for the OER change agent here.