Free access to course material is a complete information jungle. There are may initiatives but with all due respect they have very little impact. Lack of organization and collaboration is the main problem. However some promising projects are presented.

OpenCourseWare Consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

The oldest open source courseware program established by MIT. In the Netherlands is Delft University a participant in this programme.

Global text project http://globaltext.org/

A fairly new initiative which aims to develop extbooks based on wiki software.

Freeloadpress http://www.freeloadpress.com/

Freeload Press, Inc. is liberating the textbook so students from all financial backgrounds can use these important learning tools. At this moment still an important USA bias.

Syllabus Finder http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/syllabi/

Searches 749,424 syllabi at the Center for History and New Media and over 500,000 syllabi via Google. The Syllabus Finder sends an optimized, specially packaged version of your query to Google, which sends back information and possible matches. The Syllabus Finder then processes this information and combines it with simultaneous searches on in-house databases (e.g., a database of educational institutions, so it can tell you which university or college a syllabus comes from). It also has algorithms that try to extract additional information from matching syllabi, such as assigned books. When this complex process is finished, the Syllabus Finder displays all of the information it has found.

Ugenie texbook finder http://ugenie.com/textbooks

The tool has textbooks data for over 300,000 Fall 2007 courses at 1,130 U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities.With Course Textbook Finder, college students can find which books they need online, in addition to traditional information sources.

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