Portal:External Resources

• OER Commons - "OER (Open Educational Resources) Commons is a teaching and learning network, from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware, from algebra to zoology, open to everyone to use and add to."

• Global Learning Portal - "You can use the portal to: 1)Search for educational materials in your language and subject of interest 2) Connect with colleagues from around the world 3) Join communities on a variety of educational topics."

• Think.com - "Think.com connects schools, teachers, and students from around the world to collaborate on projects, share experiences, and build knowledge together."

• Curriki - "Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them." Though Curriki and the OLiVER Project overlap in some ways, they are each useful in different ways as well.

• Wikibooks - "a Wikimedia project that was started on July 10, 2003 with the mission to create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit."

• eGranary Digital Library - If you know of schools that do not yet have adequate internet access, and therefore can not use OLiVER...this may be the solution. "The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE our partner institutions in developing countries, we deliver millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost." Created by The WiderNet Project

• Yahoo! Teachers - "The easy to use site and peer network designed by teachers."

• Wikiversity - "...a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service."

• World Wide School - "This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of educational material. To participate in the World Wide School all you need to do is to invest your time."

• Bartleby.com - "...publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant."

• Project Gutenberg - over 20,000 free electronic books

• The Institute of Education(London) Library catalogue provides links to electronic resources on Education