Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.

OER Commons is a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K through college, from algebra to zoology, open to all to use.

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL. Some highlights include (a) WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a "virtual note sheet," (b) Unlimited number of staves, (c) Up to four voices per staff, (d) Easy and fas

Royalty-free music that can be downloaded and used in projects, etc.

Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags. It also feat

OSWINS DVD is a collection of Free and Open Source software for educational use that run on Windows. The educational software varies from mathematics to music, from science to graphics, from programming to educational gamesi and includes office tools, b

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these sa

Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and

Solfege is free music education software.Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. Solfege - Smarten your ears!FeaturesRecognise melodic and harmonic intervalsCompare interval sizesSing the intervals the computer asks forIdentif

Elgg was started in 2004 with the aim of providing an elegant and powerful solution for anyone who wants to create their own online community. Elgg is free and open source and powers all kinds of social networks - from education and business to martial ar

LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files. It is Free Software (‘open source’).

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

Welcome to the Archive's audio and MP3 library. This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original

Prey is a lightweight application that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free.

Impro-Visor ("Improvisation Advisor") is a software tool designed by musician and computer scientist Bob Keller to help jazz musicians work out, hear, and record solo ideas, including studying the work of others. It provides a notation capability for lead

Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this m

EtherPad is the first web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time.All editing of the document is instantly visible on the screens of all participating users, enabling new and productive ways to collaborate on text do

Commons In A Box (CBOX) is a free software project aimed at turning the infrastructure that successfully powers the CUNY Academic Commons into a free, distributable, easy-to-install package. Commons In A Box is a project of the City University of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY and is made possible by a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. CBOX takes the complexity out of creating a Commons site, helping organizations create a space where their members can discuss issues, collaborate on projects, and share their work.

The Variations Audio Timeliner is an audio annotation and analysis tool for creating and labeling bubble diagrams. These diagrams can be used to navigate music or other audio for detailed study.