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Textbook Piracy Alternatives
OER *may* represent another approach to the legal creation, distributiong and use educational resources.

A fun place to start exploring is:
    http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html


MIT's Open Courseware initiative <http://ocw.mit.edu> has been a poster-child for OER. 

Several foundations have made substantial
investments, e.g. <http://www.oercommons.org/> and there are many more initiatives that work at the institutional level and beyond.

AMAZING COLLECTIONS!
Why start bookmarking free learning content out there from scratch, when there are great people out there that have already assembled amazing OCW collections for us to explore (for free!). Here are a few amazing OCW collections shared by special people out there:


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