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Engineering
- Stanford’s Engineering Everywhere (10 Engineering courses)
- Wisc-online (Online videos about various disciplines)
- Free techbooks (Textbooks and Lecture notes on CS and EE
Geosciences
Language education
- MOOEC (OERs for studying the English language)
Philosophy
- Ethics education library (Ethics in various disciplines (multiple case studies)
- Ethics in mental health (Case studies)
Research methods
- Causeweb.org (Various materials on applied statistics)
- Restore
Science
- Delft Open Courseware
- Leiden Open Courseware
- Universiteit van Nederland (Lectures by Dutch professors)
- Wikiwijs (Wikiwijs education tools platform is a combined initiative by Kennisnet, the Open Universiteit and SLO)
- Open Universiteit
- Saylor.org/books
- BC Campus OpenED
- BookBoon (Also offers Dutch books)
- Open Textbooks Library
- OpenStaxCollege
- Open Suny textbooks
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are about more than individual digital resources. They offer complete courses, using combinations of various education methods; e.g. video lectures, exercises and discussions. You can find more information on MOOCs on this website (Dutch only).
Always check the terms and conditions before using materials. The portals mentioned below offer MOOCS that are free of charge, however, a fee may be charged for certification/ examination.
- EdX (Multiple universities)
- Coursera (Multiple universities and institutes)
- Iversity (Offered by individual professors)
- OpenupEd (European Portal for MOOCs)
- FutureLearn (Mainly British universities)
- OERu (Multiple universities)
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are online digital education tools that are freely available for (re)use. Copying, editing and distributing this material is allowed on certain conditions. Every type of educational material that is available both digitally and freely can be classified as an Open Digital Resource. You can find more information on the use of Open Educational Resources at the SURF Special Interest Group Education (Dutch only).
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- Open education consortium (Multidisciplinary, originating from over 70 institutes, mainly universities)
- Merlot.org (Multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed)
- Academic Earth (Multidisciplinary, American Universities)
- Jorum (Multidisciplinary, originating mainly from British Universities)
- Open Education Europa (European portal for finding MOOCS and OERS)
- Khan Academy (Multidisciplinary, but with a focus on natural sciences and mathematics)
- Connexions (Multidisciplinary)