Here are several web-based sources to share free course content:

•The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium makes available open educational resources that teachers can use to help high school and college students study biology by posing and solving problems and communicating with their peers, just as real scientists do.

•The Creative Commons is the nonprofit author of Creative Commons licenses, which allow content creators to tell others which rights to their specific works they reserve and which rights they waive for the benefit of other creators.

•FreeReading is an open instructional program to help teach early literacy through a 40-week scope and sequence of concepts and activities.

•The Math Open Reference is a free interactive math textbook, which covers high school geometry and plans to expand to other areas of math.

•The Open Educational Resources Commons is a comprehensive open-learning network where teachers from pre-K to higher education can share course materials and collaborate on educational issues.