1. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
FREELY AVAILABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL
STUDENT AND TEACHER USE
MATH
Curricular Resources:
http://www.hippocampus.org/Algebra (also in Spanish)
http://www.hippocampus.org/Calculus (also in Spanish)
MiniSite: http://math.hippocampus.org/
Instructor Blog: http://hippocampusmath.blogspot.com/
NATURAL SCIENCES
Curricular Resources:
http://www.hippocampus.org/Biology
http://www.hippocampus.org/Physics
MiniSites:
http://biology.hippocampus.org/
http://physics.hippocampus.org/
Instructor Blogs:
http://hippocampusbiology.blogspot.com/
http://hippocampusphysics.blogspot.com/
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Curricular Resources:
http://www.hippocampus.org/American Government
http://www.hippocampus.org/US History
http://www.hippocampus.org/Psychology
http://www.hippocampus.org/Religion
http://www.hippocampus.org/Statistics (for Social Sciences)
MiniSites:
http://government.hippocampus.org/
http://history.hippocampus.org/
Instructor Blogs:
http://hippocampusgovernment.blogspot.com/
http://hippocampushistory.blogspot.com/
OTHER
Student Blog: http://hippocampusstudents.blogspot.com/
Partner Resources: http://nroc.careerforward.org/careerforward/
For more information about institutional use and local adaptation of
these resources, please visit:
http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nrocnetwork

2. Other Open Educational Resources (OER):
OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/
MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu
Open CourseWare Consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org
Carnegie Mellon University (OLI) http://www.cmu.edu/oli/
Rice Connexions http://www.cnx.rice.edu
Learning Object Repositories and Referatories (LORs) and Specialized Collections:
Merlot http://www.merlot.org
Wisc-Online http://www.wisc-online.com
GEM Referatory http://www.thegateway.org
The PT3 Pathways Project http://www.rwlo.org/refdesk.aspx
ActionBioscience.Org http://www.actionbioscience.org/
Digital Library for Earth Science Ed. http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp
Harvey Project: Human Physiology http://harveyproject.org
WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org
ide@s (U of Wisconsin System) http://www.ideas.wisconsin.edu
Math Archives http://archives.math.utk.edu/tutorials.html
AMSER (NSF) http://amser.org/
Catalogs of Repositories & Referatories:
http://elearning.utsa.edu/guides/LO-repositories.htm
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_collections.html
http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/lop/index.htm
http://tux.cdws.ucf.edu/dlss/index.php/Digital_Asset_Repositories
For more on OER:
http://www.hewlett.org/oer
For more on copyright considerations:
http://creativecommons.org/
For more on OER international development projects:
http://www.col.org
http://widernet.org/
http://www.oerafrica.org/
Resource Handout to Accompany:
“The Value of Open Educational Resources: Practical Applications and Opportunities”
2009 Virtual School Symposium
Terri Rowenhorst trowenhorst@montereyinstitute.org