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My Digital Footprint

John Seely Brown

The web has just begun to have an impact on our lives. As fascinated as we are with it today, we’re still seeing it in its early forms… My belief is that not only will the web be as fundamental to society as electrification but that it will be subject to many of the same diffusion and absorption dynamics as that earlier medium.

  • Free Textbooks

    See OER - Open Education link for other major collections of open (free) learning and teaching resources.
    • Internet Archive
      A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
    • OER Commons
      Find free-to-use teaching and learning content from around the World. K-12 Lessons, College Courses, and more.
    • Open Culture: Free Textbooks
      Free courses, textbooks, media files and learning opportunities
    • Smarthistory
      Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook.
    • Connexions
      A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.
    • International Institute for Educational Planning
      UNESO resource distributed through Netvibes.
    • Wikibooks
      A Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. All subjects.
    • Community College Consortium for Open Education Resources
      Open education resources organised by subject discipline.
    • Apple Education K-12
      Free learning resources submitted by schools and universities. Good Australian content. Books, notes, videos, podcasts.
    • Flexbooks
      Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12 - science, technology, engineering & mathematics
    • JISC - Libraries and Research
      Providing shared services, infrastructure and advice to help you manage your library resources, research publication lifecycle and research outputs.
    • Open Courseware MIT
      "The idea is simple: to publish all of our course materials online and make them widely available to everyone.”
    • Open Learn - UK
      UK Open University program
    • Hewlett Foundation OER
      Since 2002, the Hewlett Foundation has worked with OER grantees to improve education globally by making high-quality academic materials openly available on the Internet.
    • Python for Software Design
      Python for Software Design is a concise introduction to software design using the Python programming language. Intended for people with no programming experience, this book starts with the most basic concepts and gradually adds new material.