Review Open Education Database (OEDb.org)

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Open Education Database (OEDb.org)

Open Education Database is a comprehensive online education directory for both free and for-credit learning options. The site’s database of free educational resources holds 10,000+ free online audio and visual lectures, full courses and multimedia covering a variety of subjects. The free open course offering primarily focuses on Open Courseware offered by accredited universities, including UC Berkeley, MIT, and Yale University. Registration is not required to access any of the resources listed. Users can search by key word or browse resources via 8 subject categories. The filtering tools allow you to select resources by resource type (course, video, text etc), and by course provider.

In addition to the free open courses, the site also features a database of more than 1,600 online schools as well as annual online college rankings. The iLibrarian blog covers a variety of topics, such as technology, information, social media, and gaming.

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