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College and University Classes

Berkeley: Webcasts / iTunesU	Cambridge	Carnegie Mellon	Cornell	Harvard	MIT
MIT for High School	Open University	Stanford	Tufts	Utah State	Yale
multiple schools:	Connexions	CosmoLearning	Einztein	HippoCampus	udemy

Podcasts

iTunes K12	iTunes U.	LearnOutLoud.com	Oxford	Yale
Education Podcast Network	Podcast Directory for Educators, Schools and Colleges

• 100 Useful, Free Web Tools for Lifelong Learners
  Some of the suggestions duplicate sites mentioned elsewhere here, but it's a nicely categorized, annotated list of online learning, ebook, and reference tools.
• American Radio Works
  "AMERICAN RADIOWORKS® is the national documentary unit of American Public Media. ARW is public radio's largest documentary production unit; it creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet."
• Connexions
  "A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc." Includes some entire textbooks.
• Eduslide
  "Eduslide allows anyone to create educational content and deliver it online, free of charge." Includes plenty of free lessons. (Formerly known as Tutorom.)
• Finding Dulcinea Web Guides
  "Our collection of Web Guides began with the original Guide to Web Search. With the Guide to Web Search, you should be able to find any Web resource you need, but we've drilled down into much more specific topics to help with more targeted search. ... The Guides include fun topics such as Family Travel, academic subjects such as Elementary School Social Studies Resources, serious health topics such as Leukemia."
• FreeEd.net
  Non-Credit self-paced online courses and tutorials.
• GCFLearnFree.org
  Free online classes in a variety of topics in the areas of Everyday Life, Math & Money, Computers, and more.
• Knowledge Hound, the How-To Hunter
  "Knowledge Hound is a how-to directory that organizes thousands of free tutorials and tips into an easy-to-navigate format. The site also publishes original content in their 'KH How2s' section, as well as a free monthly newsletter."
• Learning Continuity with iTunes and iTunes U.
  Subject-organized list of some of the educational podcasts and classes available through iTunes.
• OEDb: Online Education Database
  "OEDb currently contains reviews of 1,048 programs from 87 accredited online colleges." Also has financial aid information, and an extensive online library of articles about elearning and online education.
• OER Commons
  "OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know. Browse and search OER Commons to find curriculum, and tag, rate, and review it for others."
• Open Culture
  "Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. ... Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content — it’s all here."
• The Self-Directed Student Toolbox: 100 Web Resources for Lifelong Learners
  "We've chosen the best resources for adult learners in ten categories to develop a self-directed toolbox that can lead you, the lifelong learner, to other resources that you may need to meet personal goals."
• Virtual Training Suite
  "Provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research." (Not updated after July 31, 2011)
• WannaLearn.com
  "Over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented Websites!"

 Free Electronic Textbooks 

• CK12 FlexBooks
  "An online system for collaborative, custom-collated, self publishable educational content that can be adapted for individualized needs in a digital-age textbook known as a FlexBook."
• Connexions
  "A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc."
• Flat World Knowledge
  "We preserve the best of the old — books by leading experts, peer-reviewed and developed to high editorial standards, fully supported by review copies, teaching supplements and great service."
• HippoCampus
  "The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge." Includes many online textbooks.
• Merlot: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
  Thousands of quality open-source books and materials. Includes a Community College Open Textbook Collaborative of college materials.
• OER Commons
  "Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared."
• Open Culture: 150 Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection
  "Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 150 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions."
• Open Textbooks
  "The primary goal ... is to identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and make them available for use by community college students and faculty."
• Science Books Online
  "Lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents."
• Textbook Revolution
  "Our approach is to bring all of the free textbooks we can find together in one place, review them, and let the best rise to the top and find their way into the hands of students in classrooms around the world. At Textbook Revolution, you’ll find links to textbooks and select educational resources of all kinds."
• Wikibooks
  "A Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003; since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 34,816 pages ..."