Blended Learning and resources
Creation
Most academics create their own lecture notes and presentations and make them available to students through their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Podcasts, ie audio recordings, may also be created.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
OERs are "educational materials, technologies and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.” http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3636
Merlot –Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Teaching Online -http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
JORUM http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
Publishers of text books
Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/
Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/