A progressively motivating factor in the global education revolution are the open access (OER) initiatives emerging globally and in the (German-speaking) DACH region. They all share the goal of democratizing education, freeing it from local and personal fixations, and making it as freely accessible as possible.

These are also the signs of a profound shift in consciousness, which, according to Teilhard de Chardin, is evident in the developing “noosphere” and is significantly improving the mental atmosphere of the planet.

I strive to make as many courses, materials, etc. as possible freely available in the spirit of Open Access (see also: Campus MetanoiaHowever, the discovery and education platform relies on support for its development and maintenance, and so we still have to charge course or participation fees for certain offerings.

Clicking on an entry in the list of other Open Access projects opens a short description and the link to the respective website

Global

Khan Academy

OER learning platform with exercises and mastery learning

To the website

Khanmigo

Optional AI tutor for Khan Academy

To the website

MIT OpenCourseWare

Freely accessible university courses & materials

To the website

OpenStax

Open, quality-assured textbooks

To the website

LibreTexts

Modular open textbooks (especially STEM)

To the website

Open Textbook Library

Catalog of openly licensed textbooks

To the website

Project Gutenberg

Public domain e-books (classics)

To the website

Internet Archive

Digital library/archive for texts, audio, video, web

To the website

Open Library

Book information & digital lending

To the website

Wikipedia

Free Encyclopedia

To the website

Wikibooks

Free textbooks

To the website

Wikiversity

Learning projects & open courses

To the website

Wikimedia Commons

Free media (images/audio/video)

To the website

arXiv

Open preprints (research)

To the website

PubMed Central (PMC)

Open Biomed Full Texts

To the website

DOAJ

List of peer-reviewed OA journals

To the website

DOAB

Open Books Directory (OA)

To the website

OpenLearn (OU)

Free courses from the Open University

To the website

Saylor Academy

Free OER courses (college level)

To the website

ROOF

Serlo

OER learning platform (school), community-based

To the website

ZUM teaching

OER community & teaching materials

To the website

openHPI

MOOC platform (IT) of the HPI

To the website

iMooX

Austrian MOOC platform (CC licenses)

To the website

OPEN vhb

Open university courses (Bavaria)

To the website

OpenLearnWare (TU Darmstadt)

Open lecture recordings

To the website

WeLearnOnline

OER search engine & community

To the website

WORLD

Educational media library of the states

To the website

German Digital Library

Cultural Heritage Portal

To the website

ORCA.nrw

OER portal of the universities of North Rhine-Westphalia

To the website

TIB AV Portal

Science Videos (TIB)

To the website

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