As if the world of open content licenses wasn’t confusing already, along comes another one, well, sort of.

Konomark isn’t actually a license, but instead a symbol which you can place on your website

“that lets visitors to your website know that you are generally willing to share your copyrighted content, such as photos, educational materials, music, etc., with folks like yourself, for free. The konomark is an invitation to e-mail you and ask you for permission.”

So slightl different than the Creative Commons approach but with similar ends. Konomark doesn’t remove all of the “friction” from sharing, but it does help you know when asking is worthwhile, and unlikely Creative Commons, very much insists a request be made and acknowledged before the reuse happens.

Very handy site of free, high quality images that you are free to re-use with very little restrictions short of claiming ownership or reselling them “as is.”

There are many ways to search for only Creative Commons-licensed materials, but the new Let’s CC provides one of the most elegant integrated searches for CC materials that I have seen. It allows you to filter by audio, images, rich media or otherwise and searches a large number of sources for reusable material. – SWL

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.