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WikiTeach www.wikiteach.org This lesson plan wiki is for teachers who want to share their lessons with others. Think of it as a Wikipedia of instructional content. Login is not required, but you can log in to take advantage of enhanced features. The free lesson plans available on this site are from a wide age range including preschool lesson plans, elementary lesson plans, middle school lesson plans, high school lesson plans and college lesson plans. Subjects covered in these free lesson plans can be from any subject, including math lesson plans, english lesson plans, language lesson plans, history lesson plans, social studies lesson plans, art lesson plans, science lesson plans and more.
Open Education News http://openeducationnews.org The field of open education is gaining momentum and energy. As additional projects, foundations, universities, and other participants join the movement, the need increases for a single source to gather, sort, analyze, synthesize, and disseminate news related to open education. Open Education News provides you with a daily dose of the most relevant open education news from around the world.
Open Education–Free Education For All www.openeducation.net OpenEducation.net is a site dedicated to tracking the changes occurring in education today.
OLCOS, (Open eLearning Content Observatory Services) www.olcos.org aims at building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of open educational resources, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe.

Presently the benefits and characteristics of open source software in education is apparent and widely acknowledged, this is not the case with respect to the concept of digital open content that may particularly benefit flexible and open learning models (e.g. collaborative knowledge and skills building) in schools, higher educational institutions and vocational training. Contains a useful a set of online tutorials that provide information and guidance on how to practically work with ODEC.

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