Open Courseware
Open courseware is a fairly new concept in content delivery. Several colleges and universities provide open courseware to allow anyone to access the courses and lectures for free. The following are some sites devoted to the Open Courseware concept.
- 50 Top Sources of Free eLearning Courses
- P2PU School of Open
- Top Online Courses and Classes on the Web
- 500 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
- Creative Commons Website provides a way to share your knowledge and creativity with the world.
- CK-12 FlexBooks Website provides customizable free flexbooks.
- MIT Opencourseware. Massachusettes Institute of Technology provides free lecture notes, exams, and videos.
- Open Culture. Open Culture is a resource of over 400 sites offering open courseware.
- OpenCourseware Consortium. A collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
- Open StreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.
- OpenCourseware Calculator. Can you save money with open textbooks? Use this handy calculator for a quick answer.
Read more about opencourseware here.
Free Online Reading Materials
I have added some more links to free reading books. (11/18/2011) Some of the sites have the books leveled, but all are free books that could be read with a device for elementary to young adult students.
- http://www.magickeys.com/books/ These are somewhat leveled
- gerberrieber.blogspot.com/2009/09/leveled-readers-online.html Use this person’s login and password. Great books leveled here. Does EVSC have an account?
- joggoon.com/genre/?query=children
- http://www.bookbox.com/free_stuff.php?cat=pdf
- http://www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html
- http://www.childrensbooksforever.com/
- http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/library.htm These are leveled.
- http://www.starfall.com/ Nice site for students learning to read and early readers.
- http://bygosh.com/index.htm Not leveled, but categorized as short stories (easy) kids classics, non-fiction, poems, and novels. (more advanced)
- http://storytimeforme.com/ For early readers. Scroll down to the featured stories. The books can be read to the student and the illustrations are animated. Very Cool.
- http://www.wegivebooks.org/books When you hover over each book, it tells you the age level. Over 100 books here that can be read in full screen.
- http://www.clarkness.com/index.htm Leveled kindergarten and first grade stories.
- http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/index.htm Free online collection of stories and poems. (Leveled)
- http://www.raz-kids.com/ (Leveled) Free trial but needs subscription. boohoo
- http://www.readinga-z.com/samples/preview.html Free A-Z samples
- Free eBooks Livebinder A livebinder full of goodies