Open Educational Resources by School

OLI is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach. Their goal is to create high-quality courses and contribute original research to improve learning and transform higher education.

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

The Saylor Foundation is a non-profit organization, pushing the open education movement forward and creating greater access to Open Educational Resources (OER). Saylor.org features over 200 free, self-paced, automated courses.

Web Adventures were developed by Rice University's Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning
(CTTL) with two primary educational goals: 1) Increase students' science and health knowledge through serious games. 2) Inspire science related careers through serious games. All games and companion materials are FREE.

23andMe was founded to empower individuals and develop new ways of accelerating research. The members of 23andMe have come together because we believe in the combined potential of genetics and the Internet to have a significant, positive impact.

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TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.

The Biology Project is an interactive online resource for learning biology, developed at The University of Arizona. The Biology Project is fun, richly illustrated, and tested on 1000s of students. It has been designed for biology students at the college level, but is useful for high school students, medical students, physicians, science writers, and all types of interested people.

BioInteractive is a web-based collection of biology-focused teaching materials created and administered by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The Khan Academy is a non-profit organization, whose mission is to provide a free-world class education for anyone anywhere.

The Saylor Foundation is a non-profit organization, pushing the open education movement forward and creating greater access to Open Educational Resources (OER). Saylor.org features over 200 free, self-paced, automated courses.