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Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (Hardcover)
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by Toru Iiyoshi (Editor), M. S. Vijay Kumar (Editor), John Seely Brown (Foreword)
Key Phrases: open technology, widening participation, learning initiative, Creative Commons, The Collective Advancement of Education, Opening Up Education (more...)



NEW! Defining “Noncommercial”: A Study of How the Online Population Understands “Noncommercial Use” was published September 14, 2009:
A global open content or open access movement includes scientists, teachers, librarians, patient advocacy groups, lawmakers, and many others working to keep information free for all global citizens. Published by Creative Commons.


"Open Access (OA) is free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide."

"I thoroughly support universal free access to research. The wonderful thing about ideas is more people being exposed to more ideas leads to still more ideas."

— Dr. Richard Smith, former Editor of the British Medical Journal, member of the PLoS Board of Directors

Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Teaching (.pdf)

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K12 Open Ed wiki


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Teachers Domain Digital media for the classroom and professional development

Internet Archives

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library,they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

Wikipedia: School and University Projects

250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives

The sites listed here are mainly open access, which means that the digital formats are viewable and usable by the general public.

What to do with Wikipedia Wikipedia
There is much controversy surround the use of Wikipedia and this article provides a thoughtful summary of the issues.