Open Culture

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What is Open Culture’s Mission?

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Some of our major resource collections include:

950 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

675 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.

550 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

600 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices

MOOCs from Great Universities (Many With Certificates)

Learn 46 Languages Online for Free: Spanish, Chinese, English & More

200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More

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Description

Open Culture is an online platform that offers specialized content for culture and education, such as academic texts, images, video and audio. The project was created in 2006 by Dan Colman, director of Continuing Education Department at Stanford University and a scholar whose work relates to the politics and development of open access and shared knowledge.

Open Culture makes available specialized materials of multiple disciplines such as archaeology, ancient culture, literature, business, politics, religion, history, engineering, or chemistry, and offers online courses with academic recognition. It also offers free language lessons of English, German, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and more.

The contents offered at Open Culture are organised around the categories: Audiobooks, Online Courses, MOOCs, Films, Languages, Text Books, and eBooks. Each of these categories is in turn organised in various sub-categories to help searching contents. For example, under the general cateogory “Films” you can find more than 1,100 links to online movies, divided in categories as broad as “Comedy & Drama”, "Horror Movies & Hitchcock”, “Westerns”, “Martial Art Movies”, etc.

The project is financed through ads placed in their website, as well as individual and voluntary donations via PayPal, or monthly subscriptions.

Links

URL: http://www.openculture.com/

Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.openculture.com/