I regularly cite new listings of open courseware sites because, although there are overlaps, each listing conveys a distinctive perspective--and often adds a few new sites for consideration. The Toolbox emphasis is on resources that will be useful to students by supplying supplementary materials for their courses and self-study materials. Of course familiar resources such as Connexions, Merlot, and MIT OpenCourseware are included in the alphabetical listing, but there are some surprises (see. e.g., Fulbright--FETP OpenCourseWare). ____JH_______"The following list of 100 open courseware projects are designed to
offer readers access to supplementary materials for education. They are
free (hence 'open') and available to anyone who has access to the
Internet. The downside to these courseware projects is that you cannot
earn credits; however, a few colleges do offer tuition-paying students
a chance to earn credits by completing some projects online.
The list, which also includes a few open source libraries (for
textbooks) and some directories (for open source courses only) to
expand your tool base, is alphabetized, as each resource offers more
than one category; however, a few resources do specialize in one genre.
Therefore, we did not break the resources down into what they offered
as we wanted to provide as many different resources as possible. This
alphabetical method of organization also shows that we do not value
open courseware project over another."