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arXig.org e-print archive from Cornell University

arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics. The contents of arXiv conform to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. arXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

Physics

Mathematics

Nonlinear Sciences

Computer Science

Quantitative Biology

Statistics

About arXiv

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Sophia project

The Sofia project is an open content initiative launched by the Foothill – De Anza Community College District with funding support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Under the leadership of Foothill College, Sofia promotes faculty and institutional sharing of online content.

Modeled after MIT′s OpenCourseWare Initiative, Sofia encourages the  free exchange of community college-level materials on the World Wide Web. It is our hope that Sofia will lead to the exploration of ways of supporting instruction and student learning using web-based resources.

Directed by Vivian Sinou, Dean of Learning Technology & Innovations at Foothill College, Sofia was launched with a pilot in March of 2004. The pilot effort began with a call for contributions that was extended to faculty from Foothill-De Anza, the ETUDES Alliance, and the California Virtual Campus. The long-term vision is to broaden participation in the Sofia project, promoting openness, sharing, and collaboration globally.

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Connexions – Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities

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. Anyone may view or contribute:

  • authors create and collaborate
  • instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
  • learners find and explore content

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The Open University: Distance Learning

The Open University provides high-quality university education to all.

The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).

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Tufts Open Courseware from Tufts University

Tufts University has joined MIT in offering the world free access to certain course content online. Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) seeks to capitalize on the potential of the internet to eliminate borders and geographic distance as obstacles to the instantaneous exchange of knowledge and new ideas. Unlike distance learning programs that charge tuition, provide formal instruction and limit participation, OpenCourseWare offers all course materials free to everyone with online access. Educators from around the world may upgrade their classes; students may enhance their coursework or pursue self study; the general public may glimpse the depth and breadth of what leading universities are offering and benefit from reading lists and lectures.

OCW does not require any registration and is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity. It is instead an effort to share knowledge and make the best educational use of the Internet’s potential. The project has already been embraced by students and educators around the globe, many of whom are from areas where educational resources are scarce or difficult to access.

Much of the course material from the health sciences schools is housed in the Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase (TUSK) and was transformed into OCW format by TUSK staff. This website represents only a sampling of Tufts course materials online. The initial course offerings represent the contributions Tufts and its faculty can make to the project’s global reach by focusing on both life sciences and courses with an international component.

While Tufts OCW faculty pride themselves on providing the most comprehensive course content possible, in some cases the full complement of OCW course materials may not appear online due to copyright and other intellectual property issues. This is particularly true of health sciences courses where professors often draw on a wealth of sources, making it difficult to gain all the approvals and releases needed to include everything in a publicly available site. However, users should find bibliographies and syllabi a fertile resource for information.

For more information go to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the HELP page or contact us.

Visit worldwide OCW sites from around the world.

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Utah State OpenCourseWare

Utah State University believes that all humans beings are endowed with a capacity to learn, improve, and progress. Educational opportunity is the mechanism by which we fulfill that capacity. Utah State OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities.

If you’re wondering where to start, try the list of departments on the left of this page, or go to the full list of courses. We’ve also provided answers to several questions about USU OCW in our FAQ.

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Open Learning Initiative project from Carnegie Mellon

OLI Project Overview

Creating a New Paradigm for Online Education

Through the OLI project, Carnegie Mellon is working to help the World Wide Web make good on its promise of widely accessible and effective online education. OLI grew out of collaboration among cognitive scientists, experts in human computer interaction and seasoned faculty who have both a deep expertise in their respective fields and a strong commitment to excellence in higher education. The project adds to online education the crucial elements of instructional design grounded in cognitive theory, formative evaluation for students and faculty, and iterative course improvement based on empirical evidence.

Innovative Components

OLI courses include a number of innovative online instructional components such as:

  • cognitive tutors
  • virtual laboratories
  • group experiments
  • simulations

Cognitive theory and faculty expertise guide the initial development of each course. As the courses are delivered, OLI researchers conduct a variety of studies to examine the effectiveness and usability of various educational innovations. The research results are used not only to improve the courses themselves, but also to contribute to a growing understanding of effective practices in online learning environments.

Assessment and Evaluation

Students and faculty who use the courses benefit from the opportunities for assessment and evaluation that are built into all courses. Frequent formative evaluation gives students the type of constructive and timely feedback on progress that is available from individual tutoring sessions but almost always absent from digital learning environments. Continuous evaluation of class performance gives faculty the information they need to effectively modify or supplement instruction to meet learning objectives.

Building a Community of Use

A primary objective of the project is to build a community of use for the courses that will play an important role in ongoing course development and improvement. The courses are developed in a modular fashion to allow faculty at a variety of institutions to either deliver the courses as designed or to modify the content and sequence to fit the needs of their students and/or their curricular and course goals. These courses will be broadly disseminated at no cost to individual students and at low cost to institutions.

Initial Courses

The first courses developed through OLI are introductory courses intended to replace large lecture format courses in Economics, Statistics, Causal Reasoning, and Logic. The courses are highly effective, intellectually challenging sequences of instruction that reflect not just cutting edge technology but the most compelling ideas about pedagogy and content of introductory college level instruction.
> OLI open and free courses

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Some University Video Sites

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
http://graduateschool.paristech.org/?langue=EN
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/
http://mitworld.mit.edu/
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/
http://www.law.duke.edu/webcast/index.html
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/multimedia/video_mm.html
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/sci/sls.html#Presentations
http://athome.harvard.edu/archive/archive.asp
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/multimedia/videoarchive.html
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/webcasts/
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Default
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/audiovideo.html
http://shc.stanford.edu/events/archive.htm
http://www.oid.ucla.edu/Webcast/
http://www.yale.edu/yale300/democracy/mediatranscripts.htm
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/video.jsp

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