Open Education Resources

I have to admit an interest in this as I work for them, but the Open University (<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.open.ac.uk/</a>) do have <i>quite a lot</i> of material online....<p><a href="http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/</a><p><a href="http://open.edu/itunes/" rel="nofollow">http://open.edu/itunes/</a><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/oulearn" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/user/oulearn</a>

I can't believe they didn't mention Khan Academy.

A couple of the best resources I know of are actually on Reddit, in sub-reddits dedicated to cataloging freely available textbooks in various fields:<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks</a><p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks</a><p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/eebooks" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/eebooks</a><p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/physicsbooks" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/physicsbooks</a><p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/econbooks" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/econbooks</a><p>And, of course, there is this classic site:<p><a href="http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html" rel="nofollow">http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.ht...</a>

Pap. If you know Opencourseware exists there are two things worth learning on that page, ck-12 and flat world knowledge make freely downloadable textbooks.<p>Not worth your time.

The progress in free education is astounding.

I am testing learnboost.com to manage a class. It works ok. But I have found a couple of wrinkles. I hope it is just a matter of time.